Fold-out portion (1/2) of the frontispiece is missing. Foxed throughout. Leather binding appears original. Private book plate from the "Fitzpatrick Collection" top left corner of first pastedown. The Fitzpatrick library was said to be the largest, finest private library in the world at one point in time and an amazing story in and of itself. Noted in pencil, in Fitzpatrick's own hand that the book is "complete TJF except folding plate frontis. all flys in." Many tables of population, commerce, exports, prices of goods in 1811, laws etc.

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Title: The Picture of Philadelphia, Giving an Account of its origin, increase and Improvements in Arts, Sciences, Manufactures, Commerce and Revenue.
Publisher: B & T Kite, Philadelphia
Publication Date: 1811
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Good

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