Research Catalog

Title

The New-York directory : containing, a valuable and well calculated almanack; tables of the different coins, suitable for any state, and digested in such order as to render an exchange between any of the United States plain and easy ... / by David Franks.

Author

Franks, David, active 1786

Publication

New-York : Printed by Shepard Kollock, corner of Wall and Water Streets, MDCCLXXXVI [1786]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Kollock, Shepard, 1750-1839
• Franks, David C.

Description

82 pages; 21 cm (12mo)

Alternative Title

New York directory

Subjects

• New York (State) > New York
• Almanacs, American > Early works to 1800
• New York (N.Y.) > Directories > Early works to 1800
• Directories
• New York (N.Y.) > Commerce > Directories > Early works to 1800
• Business enterprises > New York (State) > New York > Directories > Early works to 1800
• Early works

Genre/Form

• Directories.
• Early works.

Note

• "Likewise, 1. The names of all the citizens, their occupations and places of abode, 2. The members in Congress, from what state, and where residing, 3. Grand departments of the United States for adjusting public accounts, and by whom conducted, 4. Members in Senate and Assembly, from what country, and where residing, 5. Judges, aldermen, and other civil officers, with their places of abode, 6. Public state-offices, and by whom kept, 7. Counsellors at law, and where residing, 8. Ministers of the gospel, where residing, and of what church, 9. Physicians, surgeons, and their places of abode, 10. President, directors, days and hours of business at the Bank, 11. Professors, &c. of the university of Columbia college, 12. Rates of porterage, as by law established, 13. Arrivals and departures of the mails at the Post-Office."
• Sometimes ascribed to David C. Franks, compiler of The New-York directory, 1787.
• Signatures: A-G⁶(-G6).

Access (note)

• Restricted access;

Indexed In (note)

• English Short Title Catalogue
• Evans, C. American bibliography
• Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time
• Spear, D.N. Bibliography of American directories through 1860

Additional Formats (note)

• Also available online (New-York Historical Society copy) via Early American Imprints (Digital Evans) and Gateway to North America.

Provenance (note)

• With the armorial bookplate of John, Duke of Bedford.

Binding (note)

• Bound in red leather, spine missing.
• Modern quarter dark green leather and green cloth; binder's ticket on back pastedown: "Leather--full chrome. Neumann, Hoboken"; date stamped: Jul 11, 1938.

Call Number

Pforz (New-York directory. 1786)

OCLC

43717322

Author

Franks, David, active 1786, compiler.

Title

The New-York directory : containing, a valuable and well calculated almanack; tables of the different coins, suitable for any state, and digested in such order as to render an exchange between any of the United States plain and easy ... / by David Franks.

Publisher

New-York : Printed by Shepard Kollock, corner of Wall and Water Streets, MDCCLXXXVI [1786]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Restricted Access

Copy in Pforz: Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Indexed In:

English Short Title Catalogue, W24848

Evans, C. American bibliography, 19655

Sabin, J. Dictionary of books relating to America from its discovery to the present time, 54456

Spear, D.N. Bibliography of American directories through 1860, page 231

Additional Formats

Also available online (New-York Historical Society copy) via Early American Imprints (Digital Evans) and Gateway to North America.

Binding

Pforzheimer copy: Bound in red leather, spine missing. NN

Copy in *KSB: Modern quarter dark green leather and green cloth; binder's ticket on back pastedown: "Leather--full chrome. Neumann, Hoboken"; date stamped: Jul 11, 1938. NN

Provenance

Pforzheimer copy: With the armorial bookplate of John, Duke of Bedford. NN

Local Note

Pforzheimer copy: Title page heavily foxed and loose from text; laid in.

Copy in *KSB: Incomplete; lacks title page and pages 5-6, supplied in facsimile. Inscribed on binder's blank at beginning: "The first New York directory. The title page and pp 5-6 are in facsimile by Bierstadt--from the N.Y. Historical Society copy. (1896)"

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Place of Publication

United States New York (State) New York.

Added Author

Kollock, Shepard, 1750-1839, printer.

Franks, David C., attributed name.

Bedford, John Russell, Duke of, 1766-1839, former owner. (Pforzheimer copy)

Research Call Number

Pforz (New-York directory. 1786)

*KSB (New York, 1786. New-York directory)