The Steven Lomazow Collection of American Periodicals

One of the largest periodical collection of all time. The Steven Lomazow Collection consists of almost 30 thousand issues dating back to the early 1700's.  A finer collection of periodical artwork you can't find any where else.

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Local ID: 3150

Estimated Value: $800

Title: New York Atlas Magazine
Category: Miscellany
Volume: 1
Issue: 1-16
Date: January – August 1834
Published in: New York, NY
 All published. A rare and entertaining semimonthly miscellany, edited by William T. Porter, illustrated with two fine engravings, one a view of New York City, the other of Martin Van Buren. It is subtitled “Devoted to the belles-lettres of Europe and America, the fine arts, sketches of travels, voyages, biographies, memoirs, histories, etc.” The first issue contains a story entitled “Scenes in the Wilds of Texas”; the second includes “A Scene in the West” by Colonel Crockett (both not in Howes); the fourth, an unrecorded story by J. G. Whittier, “The Schoolmaster” (not in Currier); the sixth, lengthy selections from Timothy Flint’s biography of Daniel Boone (Howes F205). Not in Kribbs.