King's Views of New York: Four Hundred and Fifty Illustrations
New York: Moses King, Inc., N.d. [c.1915]. Folio (10 x 15 inches); pp. viii, 96; illustrated from photographs and drawings. Wear to extremeties; some minor soiling; else a good copy in original pictorial cloth boards with beveled edges. The largest (to date) and most richly illustrated of the King's New York views books, this edition announcing New York's rise to the level of World Capital. Celebrating the completion of the Municipal Building by McKim, Mead and White, as well as tremendous growth in the number of skyscrapers and municipal improvements. With the iconic futuristic illustration of New York City in the near future, with a mountain range of skyscrapers connected by elevated sky railroad bridges and the air filled with strange flying machines. Item #010884
Price: $225.00