This elegant book pairs some of the world’s beloved masterpieces with the exact locations where they were painted, from the historic neighborhoods along the Seine to the bustling grand boulevards to the cafes and dance halls of Montmartre. Full-color reproductions and period restaurant recommendations are included.

Three walking tours follow in the footsteps of Monet, Renoir, Manet, Degas, and others to the precise sites where they set up their easels -- placing the city of today side by side with the scenes in their masterpieces. The paintings unveil a Paris still visible -- if you stop to look....

In the fastest-changing city in the world, there still exist dozens of shops and restaurants that have been serving New Yorkers for more than a century. The Historic Shops and Restaurants of New York points out these hidden spots while revealing their long and interesting history. Stepping through the doors of any one of the featured establishments transports the reader to an earlier time and place. Discover venerable Old World dining rooms, gas-lit taverns, art jewelers, and old-world apothecaries and tobacconists from the New York of George Washington, Walt Whitman, Mark Twain, Boss Tweed, Harry Houdini, and P. T. Barnum. Visit a backstreet speakeasy, a print shop specializing in rare maps and engravings, and the haberdashery where Abraham Lincoln traded in his backwoods cap for a silk top hat. Explore original Lower East Side delicatessens, Greenwich Village coffee merchants, and shops where purveyors of riding boots, andirons, brass beds, and vintage colognes have plied their trades for generations. The address, phone number, subway stop, and hours for each of the many featured restaurants, gourmet shops, cafes, saloons and bars, hardware stores, and home furnishing stores are included....