first edition Softcover
1854 · Brooklyn
by SMITH, Jesse
Brooklyn: W.H. Hogan, 1854. Softcover. Very Good. First edition. Printed unbound wrappers. One sheet fold to make eight pages, folded but unopened. Vertical crease, foxing, very good. Petition to the Common Council from the officers and men of the Fifth Brigade reporting on the dilapidation of the current Brooklyn Armory and attempting to move along the building of a new armory, which was eventually completed and turned over to the army in 1859. (Inventory #: 296568)