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[NEW YORK]. Picture of New York. New York: Mahlon Day, n.d. [1825-31?].
64mo. Woodcut illustrations. Original pictorial sewn wrappers (some light soiling to covers); housed in a custom oversized folding half morocco box.
A rare chapbook for children, describing New York as having 150,000 inhabitants. Before Baedeker perfected the vacation travel guide, some innovative authors published individual city guidebooks to select cities, known as “strangers' guides”. Aimed primarily at business travelers, they typically list the roads and primary establishments in a city. Rosenbach 745.