MANUAL OF THE CITY OF THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK

SHANNON, JOSEPH. MANUAL OF THE CITY OF THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK, 1868.Thick octavo, pebbled green cloth with gilt seal of the City of New York, 912 pp., numerous color & b&w, book is somewhat shaken, spine has been re-backed with green and the original spine (trimmed top and bottom) has been laid over, cloth illustrations as follows:----- Folding hand-colored Map of Manhattan bound in the front measuring about 8.25” x 40”, 4” tear on one fold.----- Folding color illustration of Interior View of Tammany Hall Decorated for the National Convention July 4th, 1868, measuring 14.25” x 19.75”, old Scotch-type tape repair to 5” tear on the front of image and two paper tape repairs on the rear, inserted in the front of book (probably was originally at p. 782). ----- Engraved frontispiece of Joseph Shannon, color title page, 6 color plates, 9 b&w engraved plates, 3 folding illustrations of signatures, 90 text illustrations.----- Folding map inserted in rear, titled Map of the Upper Part of the Island of Manhattan above Eighty-Sixth Street Arranged to Illustrate the Battle of Harlem Heights, measures about 16” x 24.5, small chips on left side.----- According to An Index to the Illustrations in the Manuals of the Corporation of the City of New York 1841-1870, this copy lacks 7 plates: (1)New York and Environs Birdseye View, (p. xiv); (2)The Loew Bridge Broadway & Fulton St. (p. 229); (3)Printing House Square (p. 510); (4)View of the corner Ann St. & Broadway (p. 512); (5)View from the School House in 42nd Street between 2nd & 3rd Ave looking north; (6)View in Sixth Avenue between 55th & 57th St. looking West; (7)View corner Eighth Avenue and 23rd St.…