Jun 21, 2016 - Sale 2420

Sale 2420 - Lot 231

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Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(NEW YORK CITY.) Gairdiner, I.A. New York, O What a Charming City! 3 pages, 13 x 9 1/2 inches, on 2 trimmed leaves of blue paper; minor offsetting. New York: G.M. Bourne, [1831]
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first edition. "Here honour, and beauty, / And love, and valour reign / Then hither Freedom's friends resort, / The grave, the gay, the witty, / For here I'll henceforth keep my court, / In this delightful City, New York." Illustrated with a lithographed view by Pendleton after Lopez, showing Manhattan from Staten Island, an early example of such a view on sheet music. Dichter & Shapiro, pages xvii and 59; Levy, Picture the Songs. 3 copies in OCLC, none of them in New York.