The Market Assistant, containing a brief description of every article of human food sold in the public markets of the cities of New York, Boston, Philadelphia, and Brooklyn; including the various domestic and wild animals, poultry, game, fish, vegetables, fruits, &c.,&c. with many curious incidents and anecdotes.
New York: Hurd & Houghton, 1866; 1867. Thick octavo, 455, 15 pages. Advertisements. Illustrated. First edition, second printing. Thomas F. De Voe was a butcher at Jefferson Market in New York's Greenwich Village, and he is depicted as such, top-hat and all, in the handsome frontispiece to the book. De Voe was working as a New York butcher at just the moment when improvements in transportation brought increasing abundance to.....