Special Report of New York State on the Preservation of the Scenery of Niagara Falls: And the Fourth Annual Report on the Triangulation of the State; for the Year 1879

New York (State)., James Terry Gardner, Frederick Law Olmsted, Louis Hennepin

Charles Van Benthuysen and Sons, Albany, NY, 1880

[Early Proposal for a park at Niagara]  Includes an inlaid label "with the compliments of James T. Gardner, Director." 25 cm. Bound in publisher's maroon cloth. Title in gilt on cover.  Wear to cover, with loss at top spine corner. 4 preliminary leaves, [7]-96 pages. 11 plates: Folding frontispiece, 10 plates (9 heliotype), 6 folding maps, including 1 in rear pocket; 1 map detached.  Some marginal spotting. New York, no. 86, no. 37.  Text by Frederick Law Olmstead.  Includes a facsimile of Hennepin's A New Discovery of a Vast Country in America. Dow, page II: 1113.