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720pgs. Gray-Green Cloth.gilt and red lettering and design onf front panel and spine. 450 illusrtrations in black and white. Rear blank endppapers have tape reinforcement. Page 469-70 is loose and Page 475-76, which is the foldout map, is missing. Book is sturdy, no wrirting, marks. Light rubbing to the spne edges,otherwise a very well preserved copy. An amazing collection of photographs of the buildings, bridges, statues of New York City. Also includes advertisements of companies with illustrations. Size: Octavo

A first edition copy of this collection of 450 black-and-white photographs of New York as it was in the late 19th century. The first edition of this work in the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Bookplate of Edgar Waller Rogers to the front paste down, dated 1905. Moses King (1853-1909) was an American editor and publisher who produced guidebooks for travel in the United States, including Massachusetts and New York. This work is a souvenir companion to King's Handbook of New York City, with 450 black-and-white photographs of notable buildings, monuments and statues in New York. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding. Externally smart, with light shelf wear to the joints and extremities. Front hinge is slightly strained but firmly held. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. Very Good.