Liebenau, Frederick (sold)
Frederick Liebenau (fl. 1827-9) was an engraver in New York in the first part of the 19th century. It is possible that this is actually Heinrich Frederick Liebenau, born in Germany in 1770 but married at Trinity Church in New York in 1800, dying in New York in 1826, but we have only the loosest circumstantial evidence to draw this conclusion.
Rare American Map of Long Island Promoting the Long Island Canal Company.
The Advertisement. Notice is hereby given, that Application will be made to the Legislature next Session, for an Act of Incorporation for the Long-Island Canal Company…
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This is an 1824 map of Long Island, the earliest separate map we have identified of Long Island printed in the United States. The map was drawn with accompanying text to promote the construction of a new canal in southern Long Island - an effort that would presumable have significantly increased trade communication between southeastern Long Island and New York City, and from there, the world. It shows the cities of New York and Brooklyn pictorially; the Long Island towns of Flushing, Jamaica, Hampsted, Oyster Bay, Smithtown Brookhaven, Riverhead, Southold, Oysterponds, Southhampton, and Easthampton are marked on the map. In Connecticut, Rye, Stamford, Norwalk, Fairfield, New Haven and New London are named. The map is schematic in the extreme, with its best detail shown along the southern shore of the island - detailing the inlets along the barrier islands from Coney Island, Rockaway and Fire Island, and the waterways just inland. (more details)