Oct 02, 2012 - Sale 2287

Sale 2287 - Lot 391

Price Realized: $ 5,760
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 2,500 - $ 3,500
(NEW YORK CITY.) Stokes, Isaac Newton Phelps. The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1498-1909. Hundreds of plates, some folding or in color. 6 volumes. 4to, publisher's sheep by Rose Bindery of Boston with gilt seals of New Amsterdam and New York City on boards, moderate wear to backstrips, some joints broken or starting, minimal wear to boards; faint bookplate remnants on front pastedowns, internally quite clean, 8-page prospectus bound into Volume I, uncut. One of 360 sets on hand-made paper. With contemporary buckram slipcases. New York, 1915-28

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first edition. "Most elaborate and comprehensive history of New York City"--Howes S1026 ("c").