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First edition of the earliest known guide book to New York City. Worn half calf over marbled boards sans map. The contents pages 217- 223 are inserted before the text. Wear to tail of spine and corners (see images). Previous owner's name smudged to front pastedown. Samuel Mitchell was a U.S. senator from New York from 1804 to 1809, as well as a member of the House of Representatives. Howes M-703. Remains a clean copy with no defacements.
4 x 6 in

New York: I. Riley and Co, 1807. Hardcover. Fair. First edition. 16mo. Contemporary quarter leather and papercovered boards. 223 ,[1]pp. (the contents pages [217]- 223, are inserted before the text). Ex-library copy with stamp on copyright page; withdrawn stamp on front fly, name struck through on the title page. A fair only copy lacking the folding map, spine partially perished and replaced with older book cloth, itself worn, and wear to the boards. The earliest guidebook to New York, the next two were published in 1814 and 1817. *Howes* M703: "Inspired Irving's burlesque *Knickerbocker history*.