[Rarebooks] fs: 1857 Guide to NYC, fold-out color map

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Back Creek Books is pleased to offer:
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Phelps, Humphrey. /PHELPS' STRANGERS AND CITIZENS' GUIDE TO NEW YORK 
CITY. WITH MAPS AND ENGRAVINGS./
New York: Phelps & Watson, (1857). First printing, Original cloth, 
Duodecimo, 72 pages, Woodcuts, fold-out colored map. Fine.
          This guide was meant, for the Citizen, to be a "source of 
constant reference to assist him in ascertaining the readiest manner of 
discharging his business engagements, in finding healthful recreation, 
and in answering the ten thousand inquiries of customers and visitors 
respecting the different places of interest in and around the city." 
Strangers will find useful information on "the objects of interest and 
attraction, the Places of Amusement, the Works of Art, the Public 
Buildings, the Churches, Institutions, and Hotels." Bound in original 
lavender cloth over boards with upper board stamped in gilt, lower board 
stamped in blind. Some mild fading to boards, binding still sound, free 
of cracked hinges. Fold-out map, remarkably, has no tears.......    $500.00
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