1869 THE GREAT METROPOLIS ANTIQUE NEW YORK CITY HISTORY BOOK FASHION NYPD CRIME+

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1869 THE GREAT METROPOLIS ANTIQUE NEW YORK CITY HISTORY BOOK FASHION NYPD CRIME+:
$99.99

Offered is a wonderful old book entitled The Great Metropolis, A Mirror of New York. A complete history of metropolitan life and society, with sketches of prominent places, persons, and things in the city as they actually exist by Junius Henri Browne. American Publishing Co Hartford 1869. 700 pages + hard bound cover and 26 illustrations. Contents includes: rich and poor, NY society, Wall Street, police, shipping, the roughs, Blackwells Island, 1st of May, street-venders, ferries, Greenwood, parks, The Bowery, fortune tellers, Bohemians, lagers & beer gardens, churches, theaters, dead beats, adventurers, boarding houses, Horace Greeley, 5th Ave, Henry Raymond. the Battery, gambling houses, Henry Ward Beecher, restaurants, manton marble, the Five Points, morgue, Alexander Stewart, press/media, William Arthur, saloons, Cornelius Vanderbilt, Broadway, thieves, Sundays, Thurlow Weed, Bleecker Street, Nassua Street, hotels, markets, post office, gaming, clubs, beggars, street railways, pawnbrokers, childrens aid society, Chinese Embassy, Jenkinism, weddings, missions, tombs, military, fire dept, horse racing, swindles, prostitution, bankers, clergy, prominent citizens, YMCA, schools, charities and much more. Good overall for age. Some light cover soiling and wear, including some edge and corner rubbing. Good binding, light text wear, a few creased pages, text moisture stained lower marging throughout. It measures 6 3/8\"w x 8 3/4\"h x 2 1/4\". A nice find.

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