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Title Guide to New York : its public buildings, places of amusement, churches, hotels, &c. : with a map of the city, and numerous illustrations. Together with a guide to the principal first-class stores in the various lines of trade. Also, a guide to the Hudson River, (with map,) Saratoga and Lake George.
Publication Info. New York : T. Ellwood Zell & Co., No. 37 Park Row, 1868.
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Location Call No. Status
 Rare Books Medium  Z-M N532507 G9 (Hotel ed.) c.2  IN LIBRARY
 Rare Books Small  Z-S N532507 G9    IN LIBRARY
 Rare Books Small  Z-S N532507 G9 c.3  IN LIBRARY
 Rare Books Small  Z-M N532507 G9 c.4  IN LIBRARY
Description 96 p., [13] leaves of plates : ill., fold. map. ; 16 cm.
Note Advertising matter interspersed.
A 'hotel edition' has 161 p. and contains additional advertisements and a business index.
Local Note NYSL mentioned on p. 55 with the University Place address; "containing a fine collection of books, numbering about forty-five thousand volumes".
NYSL copy 1: acquisition date stamp on p. 3: May 24, 1912. Bound in blue-green cloth with publisher's monogram and title stamped in gilt on front and in blind on rear boards.
NYSL copy 2: Hotel edition, in a variant binding. Front board stamped, in gilt: "Not to be taken from the hotel. For sale at the book stores & stands."
NYSL copy 3: Hotel edition, in variant binding, faded blue-green cloth stamped "Presented by Hatch, Foote, & Co. Bankers, No. 12 Wall Street, New York. Page 77" From the library of Dr. Lewis S. Glickman. "Wm. A. Wait. Glens Falls, N.Y." inscribed in pencil on recto of first plate (advertisement).
NYSL copy 4: Hotel edition, variant binding, brown cloth.
Subject New York Society Library.
New York (N.Y.) -- 19th century -- Description and travel -- Guidebooks.
Hudson River (N.Y. and N.J.) -- Description and travel -- Guidebooks.
George, Lake (N.Y. : Lake) -- Guidebooks.
Saratoga (N.Y.) -- Guidebooks.
Genre or Form Guide-books -- United States -- 19th century.
Travel literature -- United States -- 19th century.
Maps -- United States -- 19th century.
Engravings -- United States -- 19th century.
Advertisements -- United States -- 19th century.
Gold blocked bindings (Binding) -- United States -- 19th century.
Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding) -- United States -- 19th century.
Contemporary bindings (Binding) -- United States -- 19th century.
Added Author Zell, T. Ellwood, publisher.
Wait, William A., former owner.
Glickman, Lewis S., 1929- former owner.
T. Ellwood Zell & Co., publisher.
Added Title Guide to the principal first-class stores in the various lines of trade
Guide to the Hudson River, with map, Saratoga and Lake George
Note Divisional title: Guide to the Hudson river and lake George : comprising notices of every object of interest to strangers
Added Title Guide to New York, 1868.


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