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Title	The picture of New-York, and stranger's guide to the commercial metropolis of the United States.
Publication Info.	New-York : A.T. Goodrich, No. 124 Broadway, [1828]

Location	Call No.	Status
Rare Books Small	Z-S P611	IN LIBRARY

Description	viii, 492 p. and [10] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., 2 maps ; 15 cm.
Note	Copyright Apr. 19, 1828, by Andrew T. Goodrich.
	Plates engraved by J. Yeager, W. Hooker, M.I. Danforth, and by Rawdon, Clark & Co. and Balch, Rawdon & Co., with the folded maps by J.F. Morin and B. Tanner. Five of the plates were drawn by A.J. Davis, A.J. Stansbury, and C.A. Busby.
	Includes index.
Indexed In:	Sabin, 54579
Note	Map, "New-York and adjacent country," engraved for John Melish's A geographical description of the United States. 1822.
	First issued in 1817 as Blunt's Stranger's guide to the city of New York; not the same as the Picture of New York by Samuel Latham Mitchill, which was published anonymously in 1807.
Subject	New York (N.Y.) -- Description and travel.
Genre or Form	Guidebooks -- New York (State) -- New York.
	Maps -- New York (State) -- New York.
Added Author	Goodrich, Andrew Thompson, 1789-1845, publisher.
	Davis, Alexander Jackson, 1803-1892, illustrator.
	Stansbury, Arthur J. (Arthur Joseph), 1781-1865, illustrator.
	Yeager, Joseph, ca. 1792-1859, engraver.
	Busby, Charles A., illustrator.
	Hooker, William, engraver.
	Danforth, Moseley Isaac, 1800-1862, engraver.
	Morin, John F., 1801 or 2-1840, engraver.
	Tanner, Benjamin, 1775-1848, engraver.
	Rawdon, Clark & Co., engraver.
	Balch, Rawdon & Co., engraver.

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