Colden, Cadwallader D. Memoir, Prepared at the Request of a Committee of the Common Council of the City of New York and Presented to the Mayor of the City, at the Celebration of the Completion of the New York Canals. [with:] Appendix, Containing an Account of the Commemoration of the Completion of the Erie Canal ... New York: Printed by the Order of the Corporation of New York by W. A. Davis, 1825 [-1826] 4to (9 5/8 x 7 5/8 in.; 245 x 193 mm). 45 engraved and lithographed plates including portraits, 2 large folding hand-colored maps, and views, 8 facsimiles of testimonial letters by John Adams Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette; some browning and foxing throughout, minor tears at edge of maps not affecting image, clean tear in page 155 affecting, but not obscuring text, offsetting from plates. Contemporary red straight-grain morocco gilt presentation binding from the City of New York to William de Yonghe, Dutch consul at Leghorn, spine richly gilt, edges gilt, signed in gilt by the binder "Wilson & Nichols Bind. N.Y." at foot of spine; extremities rubbed, head and foot of spine worn.
Colden, Cadwallader D. Memoir, Prepared at the Request of a Committee of the Common Council of the City of New York and Presented to the Mayor of the City, at the Celebration of the Completion of the New York Canals. [with:] Appendix, Containing an Account of the Commemoration of the Completion of the Erie Canal ... New York: Printed by the Order of the Corporation of New York by W. A. Davis, 1825 [-1826] 4to (9 5/8 x 7 5/8 in.; 245 x 193 mm). 45 engraved and lithographed plates including portraits, 2 large folding hand-colored maps, and views, 8 facsimiles of testimonial letters by John Adams Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette; some browning and foxing throughout, minor tears at edge of maps not affecting image, clean tear in page 155 affecting, but not obscuring text, offsetting from plates. Contemporary red straight-grain morocco gilt presentation binding from the City of New York to William de Yonghe, Dutch consul at Leghorn, spine richly gilt, edges gilt, signed in gilt by the binder "Wilson & Nichols Bind. N.Y." at foot of spine; extremities rubbed, head and foot of spine worn.
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