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Subject: Municipal government


Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York

This book is a copy of Valentine's Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York. The flyleaf contains a full-page inscription from Uriah H. Judah to Dr. Simeon Abrahams, describing Abrahams as a scholar, physician, and Israelite. The inscription notes that the book was a gift from Valentine, a friend of Judah's. The book is dated approximately 1855 based on the inscription.