New York: An Illustrated History.

BURNS, Ric; James Sanders; Lisa Ades.

$95.00

Item Number: 147936

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1999.

First edition of this landmark illustrated history of the city that never sleeps. Quarto, original half cloth, heavily illustrated with 500 images in color and black and white. Fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Carol Devine Carson.

The companion book to the PBS series of the same name, 'New York' chronicles the sweeping history "of a great and ever-evolving city". Beginning with the foundation of the Dutch trading post in 1624, Ric Burns and James Sanders present an all encompassing view of the city from 25 years of work to now, adding two decades to the already prominent survey of the first edition in this book. The remarkable illustrations provided throughout give life to the words on the page and make this one of the most striking cosmopolitan biographies in circulation.