French, J. H. Gazetteer of the State of New York: embracing A Comprehensive View of the Geography, Geology, and General History of the State; And A Complete History and Description of Every County, City, Town, Village, and Locality. With Full Tables and Statistics. Illustrated by Original Steel Engravings, and Accompanied by a New Map of the State from Accurate Surveys. Syracuse: R. P. Smith, 1860. [10709]
Leather spine decorated in gilt, faded black pebble cloth boards with outline of NYS in blind, 10 x 7 inches, outer hinges rubbed, corner tips frayed, small worm hole base of spine, small scuff to the front paste-down. Frontispiece engraving of New York and Brooklyn, extra engraved title page, 11 additional wood engraved plates with tissue guards, text illustrations of government emblems & seals. 739 generally clean pp., 12 pp. of illustrated adverts, some foxing. Good. Hardcover.
The map mentioned in the title was published separately and was never included in this volume.
The additional wood engravings are New York State Capitol, Albany; View From West Point; Buffalo Harbor; View on Lake George with Adirondack or Indian Pass; Genesee Falls at Rochester; Niagara Falls; Ontario Female Seminary, Canandaigua; Salt Manufacture at Syracuse; Oswego Harbor; Cherry Valley Female Academy; View of Troy.
A comprehensive survey of New York State as it appeared just before the Civil War, with a history and description of each town and village, with many of the tiny crossroad places now extinct or absorbed into larger localities.
