Title:
Atlas of the 1st and 39th Ward of the City of Philadelphia from Private Plans, Actual Surveys & Official Records
Author:
Smith, Elvino V., comp.
Publisher:
Elvino V. Smith
Description:
With 19 hand-colored double-page lithographed maps, plus title, index and map index. 21¾x16½, gray cloth.
Extremely detailed atlas of a portion of Philadelphia with hand-colored maps including a section of the William Cramp & Son’s Ship & Engine Building Company near the Delaware River, where America's first modern battleship, the BB-1 Indiana, was built in 1891-1893. Publisher's rubberstamp to title-page "Removed to 1039 Walnut St." and original cloth hinges.
Lot Amendments
Condition:
Covers soiled with some fading, circle dampstains to lower front cover, extremities rubbed; binding shaken, rear endpapers soiled with some black spotting, front free endpaper creased with short tears, occasional fingering to margins, map images fine, else about very good.
