Sketches and Business Directory of Boston and Its Vicinity. For 1860

Item #48271

(MASSACHUSETTS). (BOSTON). Sketches and Business Directory of Boston and Its Vicinity. For 1860 and 1861. Boston: Damrell & Moore and George Coolidge, [1860]. xiii,[1][9]-522pp. plus folding map and [10]pp. (including pastedowns) of advertisements printed on blue and yellow paper. Quarto. Original printed boards handsomely rebacked in leather, with most of the orig. spine preserved. A very good copy. SPEAR, p.57. "Illustrated Edition." 1860 Boston directory by the publishers of the Boston Almanac, complete with a new plan of Boston engraved for the 1861 Almanac. The nearly 200-page section, "Sketches of Boston and Vicinity," provides a detailed geographical, historical, and economic account of the Boston area and contains numerous engraved views and plans of churches, schools, places of amusement, streets, harbors, etc. Hundreds of advertisements, many illustrated, accompany the directory.

Price: $750.00