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Sale 2679 - Lot 5

Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900

SOLYMAN BROWN, editor.

The Citizen and Strangers' Pictorial and Business Directory, for the City of New-York and its Vicinity. 1853.
3 [of 4] chromolithograph advertising plates, profusely illustrated throughout. 186, 195-293 [of 300], [1] pages. Octavo, publisher's gilt cloth, moderate wear; minor foxing and dampstaining, lacking rear free endpaper, lacking one advertising plate and the final 3 ad leaves.

In addition to the expected business directory, contains essays on the city's universities, parks and especially the Croton Aqueduct; and numerous illustrated ads for New York institutions such as Delmonico's (page 40) and Mathew Brady's photo studio (page 42). Sabin 8560. No complete copies traced at auction since a Swann sale, 17 November 1977, lot 368.
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