Saint Louis Illustrated: Nineteenth-Century Engravings and Lithographs of a Mississippi River Metropolis

Reps (city and regional planning, emeritus, Cornell) has done another handsome, scholarly, and very appealing book in the style of his Views and viewmakers of urban America. He discusses some hundred bird's-eye views which are presented in good color plates. The views document the growth from fort and frontier town to St. Louis' emergence as a major commercial center. 12.5x10