[NEW YORK]. [MITCHILL, Samuel Latham (1764-1831)]. The Picture of New-York; or The Traveller?s Guide, Through the Commercial Metropolis of the United States. New-York: I. Riley and Co., 1807. 12mo. Without the map. Bound in contemporary half calf over marbled boards, spine stamped in gilt (binding worn and soiled, joints cracking, hinges starting, endleaves soiled, foxed, ownership markings, text foxed, soiled, toned, occasionally edgeworn, a few gutters starting). First edition of the first guidebook to New York City. This guide is credited for inspiring Washington Irving?s History of New York (by ?Diedrich Knickerbocker?, 1809). Not all copies of this title were issued with the map by Maverick. Howes M703.