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Published by Charles Van Benthuysen and Sons, Albany, NY, 1880
Book First Edition
Hardcover. Condition: Good. First Edition. [Early Proposal for a park at Niagara] Includes an inlaid label "with the compliments of James T. Gardner, Director." 25 cm. Bound in publisher's maroon cloth. Title in gilt on cover. Wear to cover, with loss at top spine corner. 4 preliminary leaves, [7]-96 pages. 11 plates: Folding frontispiece, 10 plates (9 heliotype), 6 folding maps, including 1 in rear pocket; 1 map detached. Some marginal spotting. New York, no. 86, no. 37. Text by Frederick Law Olmstead. Includes a facsimile of Hennepin's A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America. Dow, page II: 1113.