Sep 25, 2001 - Sale 1906

Sale 1906 - Lot 54

Price Realized: $ 230
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(BROOKLYN)
Charles Andrew Ditmas. Brooklyn's Garden: Views of Picturesque Flatbush [cover title]. (Brooklyn, 1908). 24 hand-colored photographic plates, each corner mounted. Oblong small 4to, publisher's side stitched cloth, minor wear * Historic Homesteads of King's County. Brooklyn, 1909. 20 hand-colored photographic plates, tipped in. 4to, publisher's cloth; some foxing. one of 500 numbered copies signed by ditmas.

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These two elaborate privately printed and photographically illustrated books by Ditmas show the fashionable houses and streets of Brooklyn at the height of its development into a wealthy suburb.