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Views Include: (See Full Contents below): Moses King King's Views of New York City Manhattan Fine Binding Art Nouveau Pictorial Illustrated Photographs Photos Folio Sized Buildings Skyscrapers Streets Hotels Parks Museums Statues Monuments Hospitals Charities Churches Businesses Commerce Industry Tourist New York Harbor Maritime Steam Ships American Palace Car Company Railroad Passenger Travel R.H. Macy Macy’s Department Store Herald Square Fifth Avenue Broadway Union Square Flat Iron Flatiron Building Madison Square Garden Madison Avenue New York Times Greeley Square Waldorf Astoria Hotel Gotham Staten Island Ferry Boat St George Governor's Island Red Hook Ellis Island Immigration Depot Steamboat Landing Blackwell's Island Ships Narrows Upper Bay New York Harbor Steamships White Star Liner Baltic Hamburg-American Line Cunard Line People's Line Hudson River Day Line Steamer Hendrick Hudson Fall River Providence Maine Steamship Mallory Lines East River New York Life Insurance Co Butterick Publishing Western Electric American Lithographic Company Wanamaker's Lord & Taylor Metropolitan Life Insurance Stern Brothers Dry Goods Tiffany & Co. Gorham Manufacturing Pennsylvania Railroad Terminal Penn Station Subway Rapid Transit Railroad Williamsburg Bridge Brooklyn Bridge Brooklyn Manhattan North Hudson River Aquarium Battery Park Produce Exchange Bowling Green Whitehall Building Corn Exchange Bank Beaver William Street Wall Street Broad Street New York Stock Exchange Cotton Exchange J.P. Morgan & Co. Drexel Bldg Bank of New York Merchants' National Bank U.S. Custom House Trinity Building Grant's Tomb Soldiers and Sailors Arch Prospect Park Plaza U.S. Sub Treasury Statue of Liberty Bedloe's Island Fulton Street Royal Baking Powder Astor House Hotel City Hall Park Park Row Building Pulitzer World Building Printing House Square New York Central & Hudson River Railroad St Regis Hotel Columbia University Morningside Heights New York University Brooklyn Institute New York Public Library American Museum of Natural History Brooklyn Borough Dreamland Coney Island Williamsburg Bridge Chinatown Bowery Pushcart peddler The Plaza Newsboys White Wings Metropolitan Club New York Yacht Club Union League Club, Harvard Club New York Athletic Club Carnegie Hall Hippodrome Cooper Union Metropolitan Opera House New Amsterdam Theatre Lyceum Savoy Metropolitan Museum of Art Cornelius Vanderbilt Mansion Andrew Carnegie John Jacob Astor Elbridge T. Gerry J. Pierpont Morgan Sailors' Snug Harbor New York Historical Society Pirate Captain William Kidd House Manhattan Bridge Mt Sinai Hospital St Luke's Roosevelt Hospital Luna Park Coney Island Manhattan Beach Washington Arch Square Sheepshead racetrack Brighton racetrack Speedway Washington Heights Viaduct Harlem Central Park New York Zoological Park Bronx Park Botanical Gardens

KING'S VIEWS OF NEW YORK, 1906. 400 Illustrations. © 1905 FIRST EDITION. Published by Moses King. 15" x 10½" folio size, decorated cloth hardcover edition. Illustrated with black and white photos and illustrations. 96 pages.

Condition: VERY GOOD ANTIQUE CONDITION. Exterior looks great as shown in photos. Binding is good. Pages are in very good, very clean and bright condition. No torn, loose or missing pages. A great example of this very rare 117-year-old book.

Special Note: This particular copy of KING’S VIEWS OF NEW YORK, 1906 was distributed as a personalized souvenir for attendees of the 6th Annual Banquet of Douglas, Lacey & Co., Bankers, New York City, held at the Hotel Vendome in 1906. A plate on the inside front cover attests to this (see photo below).

Description:

When it comes to turn-of-the-century photos of New York City, there was no one more famous than Moses King, who not only published magnificent view books like the one offered here, but also postcards, pamphlets and guidebooks.

This is the 1906 hardcover folio-sized edition of KING'S VIEWS OF NEW YORK CITY. It contains a total of 400 illustrations, most of them photos, the rest illustrations made from photos (so close to photos in appearance I frequently had to squint to tell the difference). It's a stunning collection of views sure to excite any New York City architectural scholar, history buff or photo collector. Skyscrapers and other buildings, bridges, street scenes, steamships, parks and museums, churches, schools, hospitals and much, much more. All with informative descriptive captions.

Again, that's FOUR HUNDRED historic images of New York City's magnificent, turn-of-the-century buildings, many of which are today no more than memories.

And what a dramatic presentation. Look at the beautifully decorated boards and the dynamic layouts inside. It's truly a work of art.

In order to give you the most accurate description of this rare and valuable book, I have provided some helpful details below. For the benefit of bidders who are New York City historians, architectural scholars, genealogists, etc. -- and who routinely use books like this for specific research -- I have personally prepared a detailed summary of the many photos and illustrations that appear in the book. At the bottom of this page, you can see some of those images for yourself.

I hope you'll take a few moments to have a look.

Views Include: R.H. Macy & Co.'s Department Store, Herald Square * H.C.F. Koch & Co., West 125th St * Adams Dry Goods Co., Sixth Avenue * Simpson-Crawford Co.'s Department Store, Sixth Ave * Constable Building, Fifth Ave * Johnston Building, Broadway * Arnold, Constable & Co., Broadway and Fifth Ave * View of Union Square * Broadway and Fifth Avenue from the top of the Flat Iron Building * Fifth Avenue Hotel, Madison Square * View of Madison Avenue from top of the Flat Iron Building * Broadway, crossing Fifth Avenue * View of Madison Square in winter * Appellate Division, Supreme Court of the State of New York, Madison Square * Madison Square Flower Plot * Brewster & Co., Broadway * The Fuller or Flat Iron Building, 23d and 22nd Sts * Madison Square Garden, Madison and Fourth Avenues * The Breslin, Broadway * The Times Building, West 42nd St * Imperial Hotel, Broadway * Herald Square, The Herald, and Macy's * Greeley Square and Union Dime Savings Institution * The Waldorf Astoria, Fifth Ave * Knickerbocker Trust Co., Fifth Ave * Hotel Gotham, Fifth Ave * Staten Island, viewed from a ferryboat approaching the Municipal Ferry at St George * Governor's Island seen from Red Hook * View of Ellis Island immigration depot, steamboat landing, ferry slip, hospital, etc * View of Blackwell's Island * Men of war ships coming through the Narrows into Upper Bay, 1899 * American steamship St Paul, fastest big vessel ever built in America * North German Lloyd steamship, Kaiser Wilhelm II * White Star Line steamship Baltic, biggest ship in the world * Hamburg-American Line twin-screw express flyer Deutschland * Cunard Line's newest steamer Caronia * French Line, Compagnie General Transatlantique, "La Lorraine" and "La Savoie" * La Veloce Line, Nord America * People's Line steamer C.W. Morse * Hudson River Day Line steamer New York * Italian Royalk Mail steamship Sicilia * View of the Chelsea Improvement along the North River * Fall River and Providence line steamers and terminal, Murray and Warren Streets, North River * Maine Steamship Co. steamer North Star * Mallory Steamship Lines - New York & Texas Steamship Co. piers on East River * North German Lloyd piers, North River * Proposed Police Headquarters, Centre, Grand and Broome Sts * New Municipal Building * New York Life Insurance Co. building, Leonard Street * The Butterick Publishing Company, Spring St * Thibodeault Building * Western Electric Co., West St * American Lithographic Company, Fourth Ave * Travers Brothers Co. Incorporated, West 52nd St * Hawley & Hoops, Lafayette, Mulberry and Jersey Sts * James G. Johnson & Co., Broadway * Siegel-Cooper Company, Sixth Ave * Hamburg-American Line Piers, 1st and 2d Sts, Hoboken * Wanamaker's new store, Broadway * Lord & Taylor, 20th Street and Fifth Ave * Metropolitan Life Insurance Co., Madison Square * Stern Brothers' Dry Goods Establishment, West 23d St * Tiffany & Co., Fifth Avenue * The Gorham Manufacturing Co., Fifth Ave * Pennsylvania Railroad's new terminal, Seventh to Ninth Aves * Views of the Subway Rapid Transit Railroad * Williamsburg Bridge across the East River * Brooklyn Bridge over the East River * Panoramic view of East River and Brooklyn * View of Manhattan along the North or Hudson River * View of the Aquarium and Upper Bay * The Narrows entrance to New York Harbor * Washington Building, Broadway * View of Battery Park from the sea-wall * Produce Exchange, Bowling Green * The Financial District, seen from roof of Produce Exchange * New York Produce Exchange Bank, Broadway * Standard Oil Co. building, Broadway * Whitehall Building, Battery Place * Beaver Building, Beaver and Wall Sts * Exchange Court, Broadway * Forty-Two Broadway * Manhattan Life Insurance Co. bui1ding, Broadway * Lord's Court, William St and Exchange Place * Broad Exchange, Broad St and Exchange Pl * Johnston Building, Broad St * Corn Exchange Bank, Beaver and William Sts * Commercial Cable Building, Wall Street * Blair & Co. Building, Broad Street * Doherty's Description * New York Stock Exchange, Broad, Wall and New Sts * Atlantic Mutual Insurance Co., Atlantic Building, Wall Street * Wall Street at the outbreak of the Civil War, 1861 * Mills Buildings, Broad St and Exchange Place * View of Manhattan from Governor's Island * Cotton Exchange, Beaver and William Sts * The Farmer's Loan & Trust Co., William and Beaver Sts * View of Pennsylvania Railroad Terminal, Jersey City * J.P. Morgan & Co., Drexel Bldg, Wall Street * View of the Financial Center of America * Mortimer Building, Wall St * Bank of New York, Wall Street * Bank of America, Wall and William Sts * Merchants' National Bank, Wall Street * U.S. Custom House, Wall and William Sts * National City Bank, Wall Street * Trinity Building, Broadway * Empire Building, Broadway and Rector Street * Equitable Life Assurance Company, Broadway * Grant's Tomb, Riverside Drive * Soldiers and Sailors Arch, Prospect Park Plaza * John Jay Statue, Chamber of Commerce * Chamber of Commerce, Liberty Street * Lincoln Statue, Union Square * Washington Statue, U.S. Sub Treasury, Wall Street * Statue of Liberty, Bedloe's Island * American Surety Co., Broadway * New York Harbor and the Statue of Liberty * Morton Trust Co., Nassau Street * Speyer & Co., Pine Street * Germania Fire Insurance Co., William and Cedar Sts * Market and Fulton National Bank, Fulton St * Fisk & Robinson, Bankers, Cedar St * Lawyer's Title Insurance and Trust Co. * Fisk and Robinson, Bankers, Cedar St * View of Ann Street from Nassau west * View of Fulton Street from Gold Street * Royal Building, Royal Baking Powder Co., William and Fulton Street * Astor House hotel, Broadway * Federal Building, Broadway and Park Tow * City Hall Park * St. Paul Building, Broadway * St Paul's Chapel, Trinity Parish * Park Row Building * Pulitzer or The World Building, Park Row * Printing House Square, Park Row * Home Life Insurance Co. building, Broadway * National Shoe and Leather Bank, Broadway and Chambers St * City Hall * New York Central & Hudson River Railroad Terminal, East 42nd St * Lincoln National Bank and Lincoln Safe Deposit Co., Park Avenue * St Regis Hotel, Fifth Avenue * Hotel Astor, 44th St * The Langham, West 73rd St * Barnard College for Women, Claremont Ave to Broadway * Columbia University, Morningside Heights * New York University, Sedgewick to Aqueduct Aves * College of the City of New York * Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences * New York Public Library * American Museum of Natural History * Aerial view of Brooklyn Borough * Frederick Loeser & Co.'s Department Store, Fulton Street, Brooklyn * Dreamland, Coney Island * Scott & Bowne building, New Chambers St * Panoramic view of the East River and Williamsburg Bridge * Panoramic view of East River below Wall Street * L.F. Dommerich & Co, Greene Street * Frederick Vietor & Achelis, Leonard St * Broadway looking south from City Hall Park * New City Prison on site of the Tombs, Leonard Street * View of Chinatown at Pell Street * View of Printing House Square * View of the Bowery * Subway and L connecting link, Westchester Ave, the Bronx * Dover Street, center of Chinese colony * A curb merchant * Coming from Staten Island * Shopping in Italian Quarter * Messenger boys' bar * "Flat Iron" corner * Immigrants just landed * Doherty’s description * Pushcart peddler * Transferring at Broadway and 34th Street * Boarding-house runners loading immigrants at Barge Office * Vegetable woman * The Plaza, Fifth Avenue and 59th Street * Newsboys shooting craps at Greeley Square * Lunch carts back of Herald Building * Greeley Square, looking down Broadway * Selling pretzels on abcxs Sixth Avenue * "White wings" at work * Free ice depot * Shoe string man * Snow removal wagons at city dump * Panoramic view of Washington Square * St Denis Hotel, 1lth St * The Lafayette-Brevoort, 5th Ave * View of Washington Square showing Washington Arch * Doherty’s Description Building * Grace P.E. Church, Broadway * Fairchild Bros & Foster, Laight St * Franklin Trust Co., Montague Street * New York Clearing House, Cedar Street * American Exchange National Bank, Broadway * Liberty National Bank, Broadway * Redmond & Company's Banking House, Pine St * The Mutual Life Insurance Co., Nassau Street * N.W. Harris & Co., Pine Street * Kean, Van Cortlandt & Co., Nassau and William Sts * Home Insurance Co., Nassau and William Sts * Fidelity and Casualty Co., Cedar St * Hanover Fire Insurance Co., Pine St * Mercantile National Bank, Broadway * Title Guarantee and Trust Co., Broadway * Irving National Bank, Hudson St * Lawyers' Title Insurance and Trust Co., Liberty Street * The National Park Bank, Broadway * Chemical National Bank, Broadway * Langtrea Building * Dun Building, Broadway * Chas. A. Schieren & Co., building, Ferry St * H.B. Claflin Co., West Broadway * E.R. Durkee & Co., Washington St * Metropolitan Club, Fifth Ave * New York Yacht Club, West 44th St * Union League Club, Fifth Ave and 39th St * University Club, Fifth Ave and 54th St * Union Club, Fifth Avenue and 51st St * Harvard Club, West 44th St * Progress Club, Central Park West * American Fine Arts Society, West 57th St * New York Athletic Club, Central Park South * American Geographical Society, West 81st St * Bar Association, West 44th St * Delmonico's, Fifth Ave * Sherry's, Fifth Ave * Hotel Manhattan, East 42nd St * Fifth Avenue Bank, West 44th St * The Plaza looking south from Central Park * The Plaza looking north from Cornelius Vanderbilt residence * The Windsor Arcade, Fifth Avenue * Sherman Statue, Fifth Avenue entrance to Central Park * Plaza Bank, East 58th St and Fifth Avenue * Van Norden Trust Co., Fifth Ave * Rector's restaurant, Broadway on Times Square * Hotel Marie Antoinette, 66th to 67th St * The Ansonia, Broadway * Central Park Apartments, Seventh Ave and 59th St * Hotel Belmont, Park Ave * Carnegie Hall, Seventh Ave and 57th St * The Hippodrome, Sixth Ave * Cooper Union, Cooper Square * New York and Criterion Theatres, Times Square * Metropolitan Opera House, Broadway * Neetmok * New Amsterdam Theatre, 42nd St * Lyric Theatre, 42nd St * Belasco Theatre, 42nd St * Hammerstein's Victoria, 42nd St * Lyceum Theatre, 45th St * Savoy Theatre, 34th St * Garrick Theatre, 35th St * Grand Opera House, 8th Ave * Majestic Theatre, Grand Circle * Hudson Theatre, 44th St * The Casino, Broadway * First Night Group (a composite photo of New York's dramatic critics, actors and literary celebrities) * Webb's Academy and Home for Ship-Builders * Teachers' College * Metropolitan Museum of Art, Central Park * Lenox Library, Fifth Ave * Neetmok * Normal College, Park Ave * Miss Cornelius Vanderbilt Mansion, Fifth Ave * Bishop Potter's residence, Riverside Drive * American home of Andrew Carnegie, Fifth Ave * Senator William A Clark residence, Fifth Ave * H.O. Havemeyer residence, Fifth Ave * Grant B. Schley residence, Fifth Ave * Dow's Mansion, Fifth Ave * Vanderbilt residence, Fifth Ave * Colonel John Jacob Astor residence, Fifth Ave * William K. Vanderbilt residence, Fifth Ave * Elbridge T. Gerry residence, Fifth Ave * George Jay Gould and Isaac Stern residences, Fifth Ave * Clarence Walker Seaman residence, St Mark's Avenue, Brooklyn * Isaac V. Brokaw residence, Fifth Avenue * William V Lawrence residence, Fifth Avenue * James Stillman residence, 72nd St * J. Pierpont Morgan residence, Madison Ave * Joseph Pulitzer residence, East 73rd St * Stuyvesant Fish residence, East 78th St * Louis Stern residence, 993 Fifth Ave * Isaac Stern residence, 858 Fifth Ave * New York Navy Yard, Wallabout Bay * Sailors' Snug Harbor, New Brighton, Staten Is1and * New York Historical Society, Central Park West * Morris High School, the Bronx * Bowery Savings Bank, Grand Street * Bank for Savings, Fourth Ave * The Neetmok residence * Church of the Divine Paternity, Central Park West * Broadway Tabernacle, Broadway * Church of St Francis Xavier, West 16th St * St Patrick's Cathedral, Fifth Ave * St Agnes Chapel, West 92nd St * St Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue * First Baptist Church, Broadway * St Bartholomew's, Madison Ave * Holy Trinity, Episcopal, 88th St * Church of Heavenly Rest, Fifth Avenue * The Little Church Around the Corner, or Church of the Transfiguration * First Presbyterian Church, Fifth Avenue * First Christian Science Church, Central Park West * Church of St Paul the Apostle, Columbus Ave * Fifth Ave Collegiate Church * The home of notorious pirate Captain William Kidd on Tienhoven Street * Home of Petrus Stuyvesant * Bird's eye view of greater New York * Blackwell's Island Bridge * Manhattan Bridge * Harlem River and the Washington Bridge * Bird's eye view of Manhattan from the harbor * United States Custom House * Staten Island Ferry proposed terminal * Hanover National Bank, Nassau Street * National Bank of Commerce, Nassau St * National Bank of North America, Wall Street Exchange * Sixty Wall Street through to Pine * Church of St Mary the Virgin, West 46th St * Madison Avenue Church, 60th St * Temple Beth-El, Fifth Ave * Mt Sinai Hospital, Fifth Ave * St Luke's Hospital, West 113th St * Roosevelt Hospital, West 59th * Presbyterian Hospital, Madison Avenue * Sloane Maternity Hospital, Amsterdam Ave * Lying-In Hospital, Second Ave * New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, Second Ave * Recreation Pier, North River abcxs at Barrow St * Philanthropic Centre, Fourth Ave * Twenty-Third Regiment Armory, Bedford Ave , Brooklyn * Thirteenth Regiment Armory, Sumner Ave, Brooklyn * Sixty-Ninth Regiment Armory, Lexington Ave * Squadron C Armory, Bedford Ave, Brooklyn * Seventh Regiment Armory, Park Ave * Ninth Regiment Armory, West 14th St * Eighth Regiment Armory, Park Ave * Squadron A Armory, Madison Ave * Brooklyn Borough Hall, Fulton and Court Streets, Brooklyn * Mechanics' Bank, Court and Fulton Sts, Brooklyn * Montage of views of Luna Park, Coney Island * Manhattan Beach and Oriental Hotels, Manhattan Beach, Long Island * Fifth Avenue looking north from 53rd Street to the Plaza * Washington ARch, Washington Square * Riverside Drive north from 89th St * Viaduct of Rapid Transit Subway over Manhattan Street, Manhattanville * Cresceus pacing a mile at Brighton race track * Betting ring at Sheepshead racetrack * The Abbot beating Cresceus in abcxs match race at Brighton racetrack * The Speedway on lower bank of Harlem River, north of Washington Bridge * Washington Heights Viaduct * Hudson River off Riverside Park * Cathedral Heights, Morningside Heights and Morningside Park viewed from the n'western part of Central Park * Manhattan Elevated Railroad at 110th Street * Harlem, viewed from Cathedral Heights * View of Harlem River at its busiest point * The Terrace in Central Park * Frozen lake in Central Park * Reservoirs in Central Park * Bridge in Central Park * Music Pavilion in Central Park * Conservatory Water in Central Park * Bridle path in Central Park * The Central Park Mall * Leo, the great lion in the Central Park Menagerie * Hattie, the Indian elephant in the Central Park Menagerie * Camel family in Central Park menagerie * Menagerie in Central Park * The Dell in Central Park * Montage of the statues and monuments of New York * Doherty's description * Pell Oak, Pelham Bay Park * Claremont Park, the Bronx * Road in Bronx Park west of falls * Bridge over the Bronx River, Bronx Park * Van Cortlandt Mansion, Van Cortland Park, the Bronx * Poe Park, the Bronx * Harlem River above Washington Bridge * Prospect Park, Ocean Parkway Entrance * New York Zoological Park, Bronx Park * Botanical Gardens, Bronx Park

Remember folks, this is a 1905 First Edition. This book is 117 years old.

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