BOHN'S HAND-BOOK OF WASHINGTON

(WASHINGTON, DC) BOHN'S HAND-BOOK OF WASHINGTON.               

Washington: Casimer Bohn, 1856. 16mo. Publisher's blue gilt cloth, all edges gilt. Multi-folding map, steel engraved frontispiece, woodcut half-title, 120 pages, 1 multi-folding engraved plate. First edition.

A popular Washington guide book which went through many later editions.  It includes a large (12 1/2 x 16 inch) map of the city and an even larger folding plate (20 x 27 1/4 inches) lithographed by E. Weber & Co., Baltimore, of the Capitol building looking west over the mall surrounded by twenty smaller scenes including Georgetown University, the Washington Monument (as proposed); the President's House, Patent Office, Treasury, City Hall, and east and west views of the Capitol, etc.  In very good condition.

 

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