Unattributed. “Girard’s Bank and Exchange, Philadelphia.”
New York: H. J. Meyer, [1852]. 4 5/8 x 6 1/4. Steel engraving. Hand color. Light mat burn in margins. Short tear in top margin repaired. Phillips: 104; Prints of Philadelphia: 177.
Herrmann J. Meyer was sent to New York by his father, German publisher Joseph Meyer, to bring out an American edition of Meyer’s Universum (cf. items 99-101). Herrmann issued this and other publications in New York, later returning to Germany and assuming control of his father’s firm.