Description: Springs and Wells of Manhattan and the Bronx, New York City, at the End of the Nineteenth Century.Smith, James Reuel. First edition. Finely bound half-bound leather. Published NY: New York Historical Society, 1938. 8vo., 7 1/2" x 10 1/2", xxvi+246pp., "with 154 illustrations from photographs taken by the author in the years 1897-1901." Half-bound brown Morocco leather with raised bands, gilt titles and spine decorations and brown linen cloth over boards, marbled endpapers, preliminaries on laid paper, top edge gilting, printed on bright coated paper. Presentation copy to the Veterans of the Seventh Regiment by the New York Historical Society, with presentation bookplate on pastedown. At the turn of the 20th Century, James Reuel Smith made bicycle excursions across New York City, photographing and chronicling its springs and well. In 1938, three years after his death, the New York Historical Society published this volume of his pictures and observations. Wear to the leather at the edges, some rub at the spine, mild creasing to a few page corners, Veterans of the Seventh Regiment stamp on pastedown, along with the same text handwritten boldly in marker, else a near fine example of a scarce book. Clean and bright, crisp, attractive.
Price: 750 USD
Location: Granville, New York
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Binding: Leather
Language: English
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Collector's Edition, Illustrated
Author: SMITH, James Reuel.
Publisher: New York Historical Society
Topic: New York City
Subject: History
Original/Facsimile: Original
