Feb 04, 2016 - Sale 2404

Sale 2404 - Lot 218

Price Realized: $ 3,000
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(NEW YORK CITY.) Duncan, William. The New-York Directory, and Register, for the Year 1795. Folding map. viii, 328 pages. 12mo, original printed wrappers, worn and faded, lacking backstrip, archival tape repairs; closed tears, tape repairs and moderate dampstaining to map, a few page corners reinforced with tape, corners torn from E3; later owner's inked stamps on title page and rear free endpaper. New York, 1795

Additional Details

Among the prominent New Yorkers listed here are the recently resigned Secretary of Treasury Alexander Hamilton, "counsellor at law, 63 Pine"; and a few blocks away his future killer, Senator Aaron Burr, "counsellor at law, 30 Partition" (now Fulton Street). Evans 28598; Spears, page 234.