Philadelphia and Her Merchants, as Constituted Fifty& Seventy Years Ago, Illustrated by Diagrams of the River Front, and Portraits of Some of Its Prominent Occupants. Together with Sketches of Character, and Incidents and Anecdotes of the Day

Ritter, Abraham

Edité par By the Author, Philadelphia, 1860

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A few names still well-remembered, with accounts of many now a distant memory, from what had been the largest city in the United States until the late 18th Century. 8vo. 23.5 by 16 cm. 223 pp. 20 plates, half of which are portraits, with tinted background, and the other half are maps or diagrams of streets. These diagrams in most instances have indications of the owners of storefronts. Two of the maps are folding, expanding by their width. The widest, with three folds, doesn't name proprietors of stores but has pleasant drawings of the buildings, although these drawings have a generic quality, like Monopoly buildings, and thus aren't reliable as a visual source of the actual appearance of the riverfront at the time. Although this was privately printed, as indicated by its being published by the Author, there is a substantial subscription list, almost six pages long, at the end. Howes R321. Condition: erosion of cloth at spine extremities. Tearing along joints, repaired, but still apparent where there was tear. Corners rubbed and other typical symptoms of shelfwear. Slight cocking of text block -- front board overhangs over rear board. Foxing, generally light and other than along page edges, quite occasional -- we don't think the foxing and other soiling, and/or age toning, is going to be disconcerting to most.

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• Titre: Philadelphia and Her Merchants, as Constituted Fifty& Seventy Years Ago, Illustrated by Diagrams of the River Front, and Portraits of Some of Its Prominent Occupants. Together with Sketches of Character, and Incidents and Anecdotes of the Day
• Éditeur: By the Author, Philadelphia
• Date de parution: 1860
• Reliure: Blindstamped Cloth
• Édition: First Edition.
• État de l'article: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Americana