[SAMUEL LATHAM MITCHILL] The Picture of New-York; or the Traveller'sGuide, through the Commercial Metropolis of the United States. New York, 1807. 12mo, contemporary calf, front cover detached, spine endschipped; minor browning and soiling. FIRST

[SAMUEL LATHAM MITCHILL] The Picture of New-York; or the Traveller'sGuide, through the Commercial Metropolis of the United States. New York, 1807. 12mo, contemporary calf, front cover detached, spine endschipped; minor browning and soiling. FIRST EDITION. Howes M703; Streeter Sale II:894. E250/350 "Mitchill, in this first guide to New York City, treated his subject so seriously that Washington Irving took from it the inspiration to write his 'Knickerbocker History' . .."-Streeter. Although it states in the preface that no maps or illustrations accompany the text, a folding plan of the city, not in this copy, is sometimes found inserted at a later date.