DeSilver's Philadelphia Directory and Stranger's Guide, 1830

(PHILADELPHIA). DeSILVER, Robert. DeSilver's Philadelphia Directory and Stranger's Guide, 1830. Containing a Plan of the City and Suburbs, the Names of the Citizens Alphabetically Arranged, with their Occupations and Places of Abode; a List of the Streets, Alleys, Lanes, Courts, Roads and Wharves, Banks, Insurance Companies; National and other Societies, Literary, Scientific and Charitable Institutions; Custom House Department, Post Office, Churches with their Pastors and Sextons, Foreign, Consular and other Agents, Resident Abroad and in the United States, &c. &c. &c. [bound with:] DeSilver's United States' Register and Almanac. Phila.: Robert Desilver, May, 1830. [26 (advts)], x, 220, (22), 50 pp., folding frontis. map, illus., advts. Rebound in later cloth. Lacking the final 3 leaves of the Almanac otherwise a very good copy. Spear, p. 281. Fantastic preliminary advrts. including one for the Philadelphia Museum with an engraving of a Mammoth skeleton.