Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
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Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
Brooklyn was once a patchwork of farms, lanes, and waterside hamlets, older than the city that would surround it. Streets remember what we forget. In Historic And Antiquarian Scenes In Brooklyn And Its Vicinity, Thomas W. Field guides you through a vanished landscape with the attentive eye of an antiquary and the storyteller’s pace of a seasoned local.Part illustrated local history, part antiquarian history book, this historical sketches collection gathers place-based narratives, traditions, and observations around brooklyn historic landmarks and new york antiquities. Field ranges across colonial-era brooklyn and the changing townships of brooklyn and vicinity, noting churches, homesteads, burial grounds, and civic sites as they stood in 19th century brooklyn. The illustrations and descriptive detail make it an architectural history reference you can return to, while offering rich leads for genealogy and local research. For readers new to the borough, it offers a vivid orientation; for long-time residents, a reminder of origins hidden behind later grids and avenues today.As an early american antiquarian reprint, this work matters for how it captures memory at the moment modern Brooklyn was accelerating: a record of names, sites, and surviving traces compiled before many vanished. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, it has been restored for today’s and future generations. More than a reprint -- a collector’s item and a cultural treasure, this collector facsimile edition belongs with classic local histories on the shelf, yet reads with the immediacy of a walk taken in good company.
