[Rarebooks] For Sale: Nice copy of Paxton's 1819 Philadelphia Directory

[Norman Kane]

PAXTON, JOHN A.  THE PHILADELPHIA DIRECTORY AND REGISTER, FOR 1819: 
CONTAINING NAMES, PROFESSIONS & RESIDENCE OF ALL THE HEADS OF 
FAMILIES AND PERSONS IN BUSINESS IN THE CITY AND  SUBURBS, 
HAMILTONVILLE, & CAMDEN, N.J.  WITH OTHER USEFUL 
INFORMATION.   Phila., [1819.]  Thick octavo, nicely rebound in 
quarter calf with marbled boards and raised bands.  Wonderful advts, 
many illustrated, for
makers of copperplates, blacking, signs, bellows, whips, canes & 
spectacles, corn shellers, plated saddlery, surveying compasses, 
brushes, bells, coaches, trunks, wood engravings (Geo. Gilbert), 
watches & clocks, guns, Dupont's
gunpowder, umbrellas & parasols, hats, playing cards, stoves, pies, 
bird cages, books (M.Carey & Son), &c, &c, as well as hotels, The 
Association of American Artists, a German coffee house, Peale's 
Museum, Willig's Musical Magazine, &c, &c.  There are separate lists 
of Doctors, Dentists, Layers Out of
the Dead, midwives, &c.  Diagram showing the layout of the city 
wards; lengthy list of streets, alleys, &c; stages, packets & 
steamboats, institutions; an almanac; and much else.  Signatures of 
John R. Neff (merchant), &c. A veritable trove of information on old 
Philadelphia almost 200 years ago.
$250.00                                      (Trade Discount 10%)

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