Annual Report of the City Inspector of the City of New York, for the Year Ending December 31, 1860 (Document No. 5)
by Daniel E. Delavan, City Inspector
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good +
- Seller
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Waccabuc, New York, United States
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About This Item
New York: Edmund Jones & Co, 1861. Pebbled Cloth. Very Good +. INSCRIBED BY THE CITY INSPECTOR, DANIEL E. DELAVAN, on the front free endpaper. Clean and VG+ in its pebbled, dark-green cloth, with bright gilt-titling along the front panel and spine. Light bowing at the boards, 2 thin strips of newspaper (along with original handwriting) attached at the rear endpapers. Octavo, filled with charts accounting for diseases, deaths, meteorological registers, etc. Fascinating slice of pre-Civil War New York.
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- Bookseller
- Appledore Books, ABAA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 22442
- Title
- Annual Report of the City Inspector of the City of New York, for the Year Ending December 31, 1860 (Document No. 5)
- Author
- Daniel E. Delavan, City Inspector
- Format/Binding
- Pebbled Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good +
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Edmund Jones & Co
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1861
- Keywords
- rare New York, rare engineering, rare sanitation
- Bookseller catalogs
- New York;
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Waccabuc, New York
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