Desobry, Prosper (sold)
Prosper Desobry (fl. 1824 - 1844) was a French lithographer active in New York City in the early 19th century. Desobry's corpus includes various privately issued plans of New York City, early survey maps, broadside auction advertisements, music sheets, decorative prints, and government publications. It is unclear when Desobry immigrated to the United States, but his first appearance in public records is an 1824 partnership with one Chanou, presumably also a Frenchman, in the lithographic form of Chanou and Desobry, located at 56 Exchange Place. The partnership dissolved in 1827, after which Desobry worked with Antoine Imbert, another Frenchman and one of New York City's pioneering lithographers. Later Desobry worked independently as a lithographer from his offices at the corner of Broadway and Cortlandt Street.
Early Broadside advertisement advertising sale of Harlem Cove, Manhattanville, Manhattan by John Bleecker and Sons.
To be Sold by James Bleeker and Sons on Wednesday the 22nd of July 1835 at 12 O'Clock at the Merchts' Exchange by order Executors and Trustees of Will of Jacob Schieffelin Decd.
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An exceptional discovery, this is an 1835 broadside map may be considering a founding document of the New York City's Manhattanville. The broadside map advertises the sale of land owned by the estate of Jacob Schieffelin (1757 - 1835) in upper Manhattan's by the ... (more details)