Settlement in the West. Sketches of Rochester; with Incidental Notices of Western New-York. A Collection of Matters Designed to Illustrate the Progress of Rochester During the First Quarter-Century of Its Existence. Including a Map of the City and Some Representations of Scenery, Edifices, Etc

Rochester, NY: William Alling, 1838. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. First edition in original binding. Includes scarce fold-out map. 1/2 inch closed tear to binding edge of map, map reverse toned, edges and endpapers foxed, spine and edges faded, horizontal split below crown. 1838 Hard Cover. xxii, 416 pp. Original cloth, gilt titles and rules on spine, engraved frontispiece of Rochester in 1812, 46 engravings throughout text, including many of religious, government, and commercial buildings in Rochester, and views of the Genesee River. Not in Sabin. Howes O122: "Enlarged from the author's sixteen-page pamphlet of 1835 entitled Rochester in 1835. Correct spelling of his name is said to be O'Rielly. (Inventory #: 2347074)