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Historical sketch book and guide to New Orleans and environs : with map : illustrated with many original engravings : and containing exhaustive accounts of the traditions, historical legends, and remarkable localities of the Creole city / edited and compiled by several leading writers of the New Orleans press.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection F379.N5 C7 1885
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Coleman, Will H.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- New Orleans (La.)--Guidebooks.
- New Orleans (La.).
- New Orleans (La.)--Description and travel.
- World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition (1884-1885 : New Orleans, La.).
- World's Industrial and Cotton Centennial Exposition.
- Genre:
- Guidebooks.
- Penn Provenance:
- Zinman, Michael (donor) (RBC copy)
- Mausner, Milton A., Estate of (donor) (Mausner Collection copy)
- Mausner, Milton A., 1918-2012 (former owner) (Mausner Collection copy)
- Hungerford, Edward, 1875-1948 (bookplate) (Mausner Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 324 pages, 14 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, map ; 19 cm
- Edition:
- Exposition edition.
- Other Title:
- Historical sketch book and guide to New Orleans
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Will H. Coleman, 1885.
- Notes:
- Compiled by William H. Coleman, among others.--Howes.
- Prefatory note signed: Geo. W. Cable., Simsbury, Conn., Nov. 1, 1884.
- Includes contributions by Lafcadio Hearn, among others.
- Illustrated with engravings by Joseph Pennell, Charles Spiegle, and others.
- "Exposition edition"--Cover.
- "Map not issued in all copies"--Howes.
- Includes index.
- Local Notes:
- RBC copy imperfect: map wanting.
- Mausner Collection copies 1 & 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2012 by the estate of Milton A. Mausner.
- Mausner Collection copy 1 imperfect: p. 11-12 wanting; 5 leaves of plates wanting; map wanting.
- Mausner Collection copy 1 has illustrated bookplate of Edward Hungerford on front free endpaper.
- Mausner Collection copy 1: title leaf detached.
- Mausner Collection copy 2 without map.
- Cited in:
- Howes, W. U.S.iana (2nd ed.), C 574
- OCLC:
- 1935147
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