The Iconography of Manhattan Island, 1409-1909 COMPLETE In Six Volumes with Dust Jackets and Slipcases
New York: Robert H. Dodd, 1915-1928. First Edition. Hardcovers in slipcases with chemises. Title continues: Compiled from Original Sources and Illustrated by Photo-Intaglio Reproductions of Important Maps, Plans, Views, and Documents in Public and Private Collections.
Complete in six thick 4to volumes. Varying pagination. With maps, documents, photographs, engravings, and facsimiles of charters, ordinances, proclamations, handbills, broadsides, surveys, plans, portraits and more. Many printed in color. The second volume is mostly concerned with Manhattan Island cartography, including 96 plates, some of which are double-page. The final volume contains an addendum, an extensive bibliography by Victor H. Paltsits, and an index to the entire work.
Top edges gilt, others uncut. Publisher's half-vellum, gilt lettering on spine, over blue cloth boards with gilt device on front board. Housed in original dark blue chemises within slipcases. Chemises Good to Near Fine, with slight darkening to spines; Vol. V chemise with a quarter-inch perforation on spine. (Please see photo.) Some slipcases with only occasional minor wear; the most egregious shown in photo, with split starting and a slit at top edge. One of 360 copies printed on English handmade paper. Withal, a superb set. Fine / Very Good; Slipcases With Occasional Wear. Item #7168
With hundreds of maps, views and architectural illustrations assembled from countless original sources, Stokes' sweeping survey presents detailed chronologies and summaries of events and the personages involved, up to 1909. A splendid set, exceptional in the bright condition at-hand. HOWES, S1026 ("the most elaborate and comprehensive history of Manhattan").
Price: $8,000.00