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Folio, 16" x 23." Contemporary cloth [worn, rubbed, hinges starting and loosening]. Some original tabs remaining. Contents: Title page [laid down on linen, blank bottom portion torn away]; Street Index [loose, laid down on linen, corner tear loses a few letters]; double-page Map of the City of New Haven [some blank extremity portions torn away]; Plates 1-43, inclusive, all colored and backed in linen, consisting of double-page maps of the City, identifying masonry buildings, wood buildings, hydrants, electric railroads, fire alarm boxes, police alarm boxes, house numbers and property owners, steam railroads, cemeteries, churches and other institutions [light soil, occasional wear to inner margins and extremities resulting in some minor losses]; double-page 'Plan of the Sewerage System of New Haven Ct. Designed by E.S. Chesbrough, C.E.,' backed in linen; double-page 'Map of the Distribution Mains of the New Haven Gas Light Company,' backed in linen; double-page 'Map of the Supply and Distribution Mains of the New Haven Water Co.' With the noted exceptions, a Good+ copy. An extraordinarily detailed and well-executed atlas of this City. Le Gear 576.
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