Manual for the Use of the Legislature of the State of New-York, for the Year 1858.
Albany: Weed, Parsons and Company, 1858. First edition. 12mo, original gilt-stamped red morocco, 538 pages, a.e.g. Two folding charts (diagrams of the Assembly Chamber and the Senate Chamber) tipped in. Some trifling rubbing to the corners and portions of the boards; boards a trifle bowed; a fine, bright copy. Item #18086
Everything a legislator needs to know, from Agricultural Society, Officers of, to Villages, General provisions for erecting.
The lists of trustees and auditors of various hospitals, canal boards, reformatories, etc., are all suggestive of the wealth of patronage available to slice up and distribute as boodle among the legislative power brokers—making this trade binding of bright red morocco and ample gilt perhaps something of a whited sepulcher of American representative democracy.
Attractive enough in any case.
Price: $150.00