[Rarebooks] FS: Biking around The Big Apple in 1896

[Bob Petrilla]

League of American Wheelmen.  FIFTY MILES AROUND NEW YORK: A Book of Maps
and Descriptions of the Best Roads, Streets and Routes for Cyclists and
Horsemen: Twentieth Thousand. New York: NY State Division, League of
American Wheelmen, 1896. Early edition. Unpaginated.

Contains 68 route maps, most double-page, along with information on
consuls, hotels, and repair shops, and a detailed article on Touring by
A.B. Barkman.  Bound in tan canvas, covers printed in blue; endpapers
stained at margins. 7.75" x 4".

This scarce pocket reference sets forth 68 routes for bicycling in and
around New York City, including a few places in Pennsylvania, and many in
New Jersey as far removed as Asbury Park, Princeton, Lambertville, &c., &c.
[OCLC does not record this title, and does record "50 Miles Around
Brooklyn" which sounds very similar in content.  Several maps in our title
are of Brooklyn.]   $150.00

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