(Parks - New York City)   REPORT TO THE NEW YORK LEGISLATURE OF THE COMMISSION TO SELECT AND LOCATE LANDS FOR PUBLIC PARKS   In The Twenty-Third and Twenty-Fourth Wards of the City Of New York, and in the Vicinity thereof.    Albany: Weed, Parsons & Co.,   1884.          This is the official report of the New York state legislature which culminated in the passage of the New Parks Act of 1884 and the creation of the city park system in the Bronx. Van Cortland Park, Bronx Park (now the New York Botanical Garden and Bronx Zoo) and Pelham Park were all authorized by this legislation. The first eighty pages present a variety of arguments in favor of building the parks, including both general arguments and specific needs of the city. The text then proceeds with a description of the various sites proposed for acquisition and use and concludes with two long chapters which present a survey of existing park systems in the major cities of America and the world. The text is also illustrated with wood cuts which depict scenery in the proposed park areas.   8vo (22 x 14.5 cm); frontispiece + (ii) + 217 pp. with 29 full-page wood-engraved illustrations + folding plan of Wooyeno Park in Tokyo and large linen-backed folding plan of New York, with the proposed park areas colored in green.            Rebound in cloth, gently worn at edges; frontispiece partially detached; front and rear hinges reinforced. $450.00

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