Description: 6 1/2" x 5" booklet, printed card wraps with cloth spine, contains tipped in foldout map of "The Hudson River from New York Bay to the Head of Tidewater Containing Names of Streams, Islands and Heights of Mountains According to the Latest Post Survey, Also the Names of Prominent Residences, Historic Land Marks, the Old Reaches of the Hudson and Old Indian Names". Published by the Bryant Union Publishing Company, New York City, copyright 1917, Mrs. Wallace Bruce. Map unfolds 108". Verso of map includes The Story of West Point, The Story of Captain Kidd, Legend of the Man in the Mountain, Sleepy Hollow, Legend of the Storm King, Legend of Spuyten Duyvil, Legend of the Headless Horseman, Stony Point, Discovery of the Hudson, the Palisades, Legend of Anthony's Nose, The Story of Major Andre, Washington's Headquarters, The Old Van Rensselaer House, advertisements for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, illustrated advertisements for the West Point Hotel, Hudson River Day Line, Keeler's Hotel, Albany, and a panorama photograph of the Water Front of New York. Condition: Wraps bumped at corners and spine ends with light wear, wraps soiled. Map is lightly soiled and toned but otherwise very good. |
