How History Unfolds on Paper: Choice Selections from the Eric C. Caren Collection, Part IX

[NEW YORK]. LONGWORTH, David. Longworth’s American Almanac, New-York Register and City Directory; For the Thirty-third Year of American Independence. New-York: Printed and Published at the Old Established Directory Office, Shakespeare Gallery, 1808. 12mo (166 x 100 mm). Later light-green cloth, burgundy gilt morocco lettering label on spine, paper shelf label on spine (spine and boards sunned, rubbed, and occasionally soiled, upper front corner bumped, gutter facing title-page cracked, title-page dampstained, with two inkstamps including one from the Bar Association of New York Library, first two leaves trimmed at upper margin with minor loss, text toned, soiled, offset, numeric inkstamp on rpm printing error on p. 132). FIRST EDITION OF THIS RARE NEW YORK DIRECTORY. John Jacob Astor (1763-1848) is listed on p. 66, and mayor Dewitt Clinton (1769-1828) is listed on p. 105.