First Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of the Department of Public Parks for the Year ending May 1, 1871

by Central Park

$1,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

First edition

First edition. 50 plates i.e with the two plates at page 24 on one sheet and an additional plate at page 258 not included in the list of plates , including 4 mounted photographs by Rockwood, 3 photomechanical plates, 7 folding plates including color lithographed views, and 3 folding maps. Without the very rare mounted photograph of The Grotto Bridge at page 198 not bound into most copies . 8vo. Contemporary full purple morocco, covers and spine tooled in

• Binding: Leather

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