For Children

Home > For Children
Start Over Add to My Lists Export
     
Record:   Prev Next
Title Englishman's guide book to the United States and Canada : with an appendix of the shooting and fishing resorts of North America.
Publication Info. London : Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, Edward Stanford ; New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, [1885] (Edinburgh : Turnbull and Spears)
Permanent Link
Location Call No. Status
 Closed Stack  917 E CS    ASK AT CIRCULATION DESK
Edition Edition of 1885.
Description ix, [3], 300, 68 p., [22] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., maps (some col.) ; 18 cm.
Note Includes indexes.
Advertising matter interspersed.
Local Note Library copy is a gift of Edmée Busch Reit, to whom the book is inscribed on front free end-paper recto; blue ink, signed and dated 27.1.58 [January 27, 1958]. Ex-libris of the Royal Geographical Society, indicating the donor to the Library, A. Begg, Esq. T.p. and all plates bear the stamp of the RGS. Binding: rebound by the R.G.S.; publisher's cloth in tan; title in gold; R.G.S. /1885 at foot of spine; back paste-down: Regulations for the Library and map room, revised December 1922; all edges gilt.
Subject United States -- Description and travel.
United States -- Guidebooks.
Canada -- Description and travel.
Canada -- Guidebooks.
Genre or Form Stamps (Provenance) -- England -- 20th century.
Bookplates (Provenance) -- England -- 20th century.
Library copies (Provenance) -- England -- 20th century.
Gilt edges (Binding) -- England -- 20th century.
Guidebooks -- England -- 19th century.
Advertisements -- England -- 19th century.
Presentation inscriptions (Provenance) -- England -- 19th century.
Added Author Turnbull & Spears, printer.
Stanford, Edward, 1827-1904.
Begg, A., donor. ZNS
Reit, Edmée, donor, former owner. ZNS
Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, publisher.
G. P. Putnam's Sons, publisher.
Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). Library, former owner. ZNS
Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain). Library. Regulations for the Library and map room. 1922. ZNS
Added Title Guide book to the United States and Canada, with an appendix of the shooting and fishing resorts of North America
Note Half title: Englishman's guide-book to the United States and Canada, 1885
Spine Title Guide to U.S. & Canada
Added Title Royal Geographical Society regulations for the Library and map room, revised December 1922.


The New York Society Library

53 East 79th Street
New York, NY 10075
212.288.6900
reference@nysoclib.org

Hours of Operation

Monday / Friday
9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Tuesday / Wednesday / Thursday
9:00 AM - 7:00 PM
Saturday / Sunday
11:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Holiday Closing: Labor Day

The Library will be closed
Sat 9/2, Sun 9/3, Mon 9/4.
Otherwise we observe normal hours.
 
© Copyright The New York Society Library | Privacy Policy