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, Town, Village, and Locality. With full tables of statistics.

Title: 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, Town, Village, and Locality. With full tables of statistics.
Author: J. H. French
Publisher: R. Pearsall Smith, Syracuse, New York
Published: 1860
Binding: Hardcover
Language: English
Edition: 1st edition
Number of Pages: 739
Catalogs: New York, American History, New England
Description: Original green quarter-calf with blind-embossed green cloth boards, and gilt lettering and illustration on spine. Scuffing to spine, particularly at hinges and edges. Boards are spotted, and corners are exposed. Red and white patterned pastedown bears the name Benjamin Falkner in ink. Frontispiece steel illustration of New York and Brooklyn, with facing illustrated title page, separated by tissue. These areas are foxed more substantially than the rest of the book, which is lightly foxed. Further steel engravings throughout, protected by tissue. No map, which was issued separately. This book discusses the boundaries of New York, topography, state government, canals, railroads, corporations, commerce, colleges and academies, churches, information by county, and geographical names of the state of New York, up to the year of publication in 1860. Hardcover, good condition. 739 pages plus boarding school advertisements, large octavo.