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[2],72,[4]pp., plus handcolored folding map, 19 x 24 inches. 12mo. Original brown cloth, stamped in blind and gilt. Light shelf wear, spine faded, boards a bit stained. Scattered minor foxing, interior otherwise quite clean and unmarked. Folding map is slightly wrinkled, but complete and undamaged. Very good. First edition of this map and guide for the state of New York. The first sixty-eight pages of this guidebook consist of tables of the population and distance from Albany of every town in New York State. The last four pages list and describe "Celebrated Places of Resort," including New York City, Long Island, Sing Sing, West Point, Union College in Schenectady, and Niagara Falls, among others. Additionally contains a large and attractive handcolored folding map of the state by J. Calvin Smith, which also depicts the entirety of Connecticut and much of Massachusetts. Insets on the map include New York City, Brooklyn, and the St. Lawrence River. We are aware of another copy of this title mentioning a frontispiece "Map of the Hudson River as far as Navigable," but no such map appears in this copy, nor is it in the Library of Congress copy, either of the two Rumsey copies, or mentioned in the OCLC listing. OCLC 9539240. RUMSEY 2808.001, 2808.002. Seller Inventory # WRCAM57080
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