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hartford: j b burr and co, 1868. Hard cover. Fair. No dust jacket. SUNSHINE AND SHADOW IN NEW YORK Matthew Hale Smith J.B. BURR AND CO., 1868. Illustrated with engraved plates. Wonderful title. -City Life-High Life in NY-Wall Street-Sailors in NY-Swindlers-Bowery-Central Park and MUCH more. 712 p. SUNSHINE AND SHADOW IN NEW YORK Matthew Hale Smith J.B. BURR AND CO., 1868. Illustrated with engraved plates. Wonderful title. -City Life-High Life in NY-Wall Street-Sailors in NY-Swindlers-Bowery-Central Park and MUCH more. 1869 SUNSHINE AND SHADOW in New York City post civil war crime gangs illustrated Age: 146 years old! SUNSHINE AND SHADOW IN NEW YORK Matthew Hale Smith J.B. BURR AND CO., 1868. Illustrated with engraved plates. Wonderful title. -City Life-High Life in NY-Wall Street-Sailors in NY-Swindlers-Bowery-Central Park and MUCH more.

Gale, Sabin Americana, 2012-02-22. Paperback. Good.

Hartford: J.B. Burr and Co.,, 1872. Not Given . Hardcover. Very Good. 8vo. Frontispiece & Plates. HARTFORD : 1872. A treatise on the social conditions of the day in New York. Hardback. Frontispiece and eleven plates. Original light-brown sand-grained cloth; gilt lettered and pictorial spine. Original pale-yellow end-papers. No owner name or internal markings. Minor wear and dulling to binding only. VERY GOOD. 718 pages. See Selected Americana from Sabin's Dictionary of books relating to America. Sabin 83591. 8vo. **Heavy; extra potage needed outside the UK. Will be well-packed for posting/shipping**. [ Rosley Books for Antiquarian books, CHS, Cumberland, Everyman, GKC, Inklings, Keswick, Literature, MacDonald, Rarities, Theology and History. ].

Hartford, CT: J. B. Burr and Company, 1868. First Edition. Cloth. Good Plus. 8vo. 712 pp. + 2 pp of ads. Compendium of New York institutions of day, Wall Street, Alexander Stewart, clubs, moneycracy, morality of city, Harper Brothers the publisher, John Jacob Astor, Beecher, crime, the police, Cornelius Vanderbilt, detectives, Blackmailing, the Five Points, the Bowery, sailors, Fernando Wood, the new Central Park, the lowly, gambling, and on and on. A must for anyone with a passion for old New York. Purple boards soiled. Boards remain attractive, spine less so. While there is slight looseness to front hinge, still reasonable tight and pages clean, if very toned.

J. B. Burr, 1869. Hardcover. Very Good. 1869; Hartford; rebound in green cloth over black with 5 raised bands and gold titles; mild shelf wear; interior pages are toned but unmarked; 8vo, 7 3/4" to 9 3/4" tall; 718 pages; Additional shipping charges may need to be requested due to size or weight of book.

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Burr & Co, 1869. First edition preserved in a beautiful modern full leather binding. Some scattered foxing and toning of pages. Pristine new endpapers. Leather binding is fine.. Ten of the twelve original engraved illustrations present. Frontispiece is missing as is the illustration opposite p. 437 " Inside Harry Hill's Dance House.". Chapter titles include: The City of Hew York; High Life in New York; Wall Street; Alexander T. Stewart; A Shoddy Party; Mrs. Burdell-Cunningham; Sharp Business, and its Value; Mr. Beecher and Plymouth Church; Harper Brothers; Stock and Oil Preachers; John Jacob Astor; Black-Mailing as an Art; Sunday in New York; Detective Force of New York; A Night Among the Detectives; The Tombs on Sunday Morning; Police Force of New York; William B. Astor; Cornelius Vanderbilt; The Five Points; The Bowery; Philip Phillips, the Christian Vocalist; Sailors in New York; Fulton Street Prayer-Meeting; and sixty-nine more chapters. "My purpose in this book has been to draw the Great… Read More

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Hartford, CT: J. B. Burr and Co., 1869 Book. Good. Hardcover. First Edition. RARE copy of this post Civil War look at New York City - "its lights and shades" from the author's observations, including "selected representative men, things, and places. . .". Covers from Wall Street to the Bowery, from Central Park to the "low class gambling houses", its social evils, the children of Abraham, New York churches, and so much more. 718 pages, illustrated. Binding has a dampstain on the front cover, is a bit faded, has moderate wear to the spine ends, minor age-toning of pages..

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Hartford: J. B. Burr, 1868. First Edition. Hard Cover. 718 pages, 12 plates; 23 cm. "My purpose in this book has been to draw the Great Metropolis with its lights and shadows in a series of graphic papers." Biographical sketches of James Lenox, August Belmont and 20-some others; a chapter on Jews; one on streetwalkers; a fascinating collage. Includes (p. 283-89) Conspiracy against President Lincoln, with an interview with Lincoln regarding a conspirator at the White House. Good+, maroon stamped cloth, scuffed, rebacked; scattered foxing. Stock#OB954.

Hartford, CT: J B Burr and Company, 1868. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. 712p octavo, illustrated. Inner hinges cracked, fraying along the extremties, contents good and clean.

J. B. Burr and Company, 1868-01-01. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good. [History of New York] Bound in publisher's cloth. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Spine image rubbed. 718, [2] p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm. "Rising immigration and increasing social stratification affected the development of American cities during the mid-nineteenth century. City guides, delineating the mysteries of the metropolis, as well as newspapers, magazines, and novels presented the East's industrializing cities—New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore—as fractured societies. According to these publications, each was really two cities: one orderly, prosperous, and bathed in "sunlight," the other menacing, poor and steeped in "darkness" (or "gaslight"). In this frontispiece from the 1868 Sunshine and Shadow in New York, the symbolic extremes of day and night were represented by a Fifth Avenue mansion and the Old Brewery, an… Read More

Hartford: J. B. Burr and Company. Very Good with no Dust Jacket. 1868. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Gilt blind-stamped title on front, gilt decorated spine. From the author's introduction: "My purpose in this book has been to draw the Great Metropolis with its lights and shades, in a series of graphic papers: to sketch New York as I have seen it." Profusely illustrated with b&w plates after engravings. The author, Matthew Hale Smith (1810-1879) was the chaplain for the 12th Regiment, New York State Militia, stationed at Camp Anderson in Washington, DC. Previous owner's name, binding tight. ; Wood engraving; Narrow 8vo - 8" to 9" tall; 718 pages; 20695 .

Hartford, Connecticut: The J. B. Burr Publishing Co., 1879. First Edition Later Printing . Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. Take a stroll through 19th-century New York City in this lively survey of "representative men" & important places from the Great Metropolis of New York, in 854 pages, replete with steel engravings on somewhat heavier, darker beige paper throughout, including frontispiece. In charming 19th-century vernacular, the book's 95 chapters cover Wall Street in olden & modern times, gambling mania & its fruits, High life, Central Park, "Life among the Lowly," Five Points, social evils, the Bowery, how different groups spend their Sundays, street-walkers, various religious groups & the peculiarities of some churches, Harlem, crime & financial "irregularities,'' the Stock Exchange, prominent local newspapers & newsmen, the police force & jails, "A shoddy party,'' "Blackmailing as an art,'' "Fast life… Read More

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Hartford, CT: J. B. Burr and Company, 1868. First Edition. Cloth. Good Plus. 8vo. 712 pp. + 2 pp of ads. Compendium of New York institutions of day, Wall Street, Alexander Stewart, clubs, moneycracy, morality of city, Harper Brothers the publisher, John Jacob Astor, Beecher, crime, the police, Cornelius Vanderbilt, detectives, Blackmailing, the Five Points, the Bowery, sailors, Fernando Wood, the new Central Park, the lowly, gambling, and on and on. A must for anyone with a passion for old New York. Spine lettering faded. Light wear to the binding besides. Scattered foxing, heavy at times, most severe near the rear.

"Sunshine and Shadow in New York" by Matthew Hale Smith. 1869; J.B. Burr and Company; Hartford. The book features an illustrated title page (with tissue guard) and eleven full-page plates. From the Introduction: "My purpose in this book has been to draw the Great Metropolis with its lights and shades, in a series of graphic papers: to sketch New York as I have seen it. From original and reliable sources I have drawn my information and material for these sketches. I have selected representative men, and have attempted fairly to present their characteristics, and usually as their friends would wish to see them. Of things and places, I have drawn from my own knowledge or observation."

The contents are as follows: The City of New York; High Life in New York; Wall Street; Alexander T. Stewart; A Shoddy Party; Mrs. Burdell-Cunningham; Sharp Business and its Value; A Night on the Battery; Mr. Beecher and Plymouth Church; Harper Brothers; Stock and Oil Preachers; John Jacob Astor; Black-Mailing as an Art;… Read More