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Early American Political Satire: In the wake of the Boston Tea Party.
Liberty Triumphant; or The Downfall of Oppression.
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An iconic 1774 American political cartoon by Henry Dawkins lampooning the Tax Act and the Boston Tea Party. This is likely the most important political cartoon issued in the lead-up to the American Revolutionary War (1775 - 1783). It was published after the Tea Party but before the Intolerable Acts. The image is innovative in its use of cartographic imagery, larger-than-life representations of key political figures, and use of allegory. Moreover, it stands out for its remarkable encapsulation of the complex pre-Revolution political environment. (more details)
First printed English Nautical Chart of New York and New England. / First use of the name 'Connecticut' in any form.
Carta particolare della nuova Belgia è parte della nuova Anglia La longitudiné Cominca da l'Isola di Pico d'Asores. D'America Carta II.
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This is a superb example of Robert Dudley's 1647 / 1661 nautical map of the coast of New York and New England - according to Burden, the 'first printed sea chart of New England and the New Netherlands.' Moreover, it is the first chart of New England to be produced by an Englishman. The chart's portolan-like lines and exquisite Florentine calligraphy distinguish it as one of the most beautiful works dedicated to the region. It is a rarity on the market, and a prize map for collectors of New York and New England. (more details)
Best map of the Hudson Valley at the outset of the American Revolution.
A Map of the Province of New-York, with Part of Pensilvania, and New England.
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This is John Montresor's striking 1775 map of New York and the surrounding regions - considered the best and most authoritative map of the region at the beginning of the American Revolutionary War (1775 - 1783). (more details)
Striking large-format map of New York City.
City and County Map of New-York Brooklyn, Williamsburgh, Jersey City and the adjacent Waters etc.
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This is J. H. Colton's large and impressive case map of New York City, including Brooklyn and Williamsburg. It is one of the largest and best maps of New York City to emerge in the mid-19th century. (more details)
One of the most beautiful, important, and enduring maps of Manhattan ever published.
Sanitary and Topographical Map of the City and Island of New York Prepared for the Council of Hygine and Public Health, of the Citizens' Association.
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This is a beautiful example of Egbert L. Viele's 1865 topography and waterways map of Manhattan, one of the scarcest, most important, and most enduring maps of New York City ever published. Viele's map details the canals, swamps, rivers, ditches, ponds, meadows, and drainage basins of Manhattan as they existed prior to the city's urban development. A version of the Viele map remains in use today by architects and contractors who need to be certain they are not building over underground rivers and swamps that may destabilize a new construction's foundation. (more details)
Most important map in 18th century American history.
Amerique Septentrionale avec Les Routes, Distances et miles, Villages et Etablissements François et Anglois Par le Docteur Mitchel.
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This is the important 1777 Georges Le Rouge French edition of the seminal John Mitchell map of the eastern part of North America. The Mitchell map is considered the single most important map in 18th-century American history. It was used as a primary reference for nearly every treaty and boundary dispute in colonial North America from the French and Indian War (1754 - 1763) through the late 19th century. The map is all the more astounding because this is Mitchell's one and only map - a truly remarkable feat of virtuosity. (more details)
First large-scale map to show American postal routes.
A New and Exact Map of the Dominions of the King of Great Britain on ye Continent of North America. Containing Newfoundland, New Scotland, New England, New York, New jersey, Pensilvania, Maryland, Virginia and Carolina.
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This is Herman Moll's 1715 'Beaver Map' of the British Colonies in America, here in its 1733 state (see below). In addition to its iconic and namesake image of Niagara Falls and the rich American peltries, this map is also significant as one of the most accurate maps of the period and the first large-scale map to show American postal routes. (more details)
The only contemporaneous view to illustrate Seneca Village, New York's first African American community.
Panorama of Manhattan Island, City of New York and Environs.
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This is a gorgeous c. 1854 John Bornet panoramic bird's-eye view of the city on the cusp of its monumental expansion northwards in the second half of the 19th century. Among other points of interest, this is the only view we are aware of to show the buildings of Seneca Village, New York City's first African American community, in what is today Central Park. (more details)
Brooklyn equivalent of the 1811 Commissioners' Plan.
Map of the city of Brooklyn, as laid out by commissioners, and confirmed by acts of the Legislature of the state of New York, made from actual surveys the farm lines and names of original owners being accurately drawn from authentic sources. Containing also a map of the Village of Williamsburgh, and part of the city of New-York: compiled from accurate surveys and documents and showing the true relative position of all.
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This is J. H. Colton's impressive large-scale 1852 map of Brooklyn and Williamsburg. In its 1839 first edition, it is the Brooklyn equivalent to both the 1811 Commissioner' Plan and Colton's great 1836 map of Manhattan, and as such can reasonably be considered the most important and best map of Brooklyn to appear in the 19th century. The present map, 1852, is, in so far as we can tell, the third edition, retaining much of the significance of the first, while also featuring fascinating updates illustrating the break-neck pace with which Brooklyn was then urbanizing. (more details)
New York in the mid-19th century.
New-York and Environs, from Williamsburgh.
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This is an 1848 Edgar W. Foreman and Eliphalet M. Brown, Jr. bird's-eye view of New York City. Looking west over the East River and Manhattan from Williamsburg, ships navigating the East River, particularly several side-wheel steamers (one of which is named for Cornelius Vanderbilt) act as focal points. Manhattan's East River wharves, warehouses, and factories are also particularly well illustrated. Ships then pass between Manhattan and Brooklyn (with Brooklyn Heights and the Navy Yard well depicted) and into New York Harbor in the background. New Jersey and Staten Island appear along the horizon. (more details)
First Specific Map of Lakes Champlain and George.
A Survey Of Lake Champlain, including Lake George, Crown Point And St. John. /A Particular Plan of Lake George.
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This is William Furness Brasier's 1762 map of Lakes Champlain and George, in its rare August 5, 1776, first state. It is the first separate map of Lake Champlain and Lake George. It would certainly have been in the hands of the British officers leading the Fall 1777 campaign during the American Revolutionary War (1775 - 1783), which culminated in the pivotal American victory at Saratoga. Most examples of this first state that we have seen on the market were issued in the so-called 'Holster Atlas,' and as such, exhibit significantly more folds and wear than this example, which appears to have been preserved in a larger-format book. (more details)
Best early map of Long Island.
Map of Long Island, with the Environs of New-York and the Southern Part of Connecticut, compiled from Various Surveys and Documents.
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A fine example of John Calvin Smith and J. H. Colton's 1856 map of Long Island. This is the largest, most significant, and most beautiful map of Long Island to be issued in the 19th century. It is also very likely the first map published by American cartographic titan, J. H. Colton. (more details)
Piracy of a seminal map detailing Trans-Appalachia.
Bowles's New Pocket Map of the Middle British Colonies, in America, Vis. Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Pensylvaia, New Jersey, New York, Connecticut and RHode Island. Comprending also the Habitations and Hunting Countries of the Confederate Indians: by Lewis Evans.
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A fine example of the 1780 Carington Bowles edition of the Lewis Evans map of the Middle British Colonies - one of the most important maps to emerge out of the French and Indian War (1754 - 1763). Essentially a piracy of a piracy, this is the Carington Bowles 1780 piracy of the 1771 Kitchen/Jefferys piracy of the 1755 Lewis Evans map - here given new relevance in the context of the American Revolutionary War (1775 - 1783). There are numerous subtle changes over earlier editions although the essential Lewis Evans chart - the finest and most comprehensive treatment of the Trans-Appalachia and the Ohio Valley from the French and Indian War through the Revolutionary period - remains the core. Pre-release editions of this map were circulated among British officers, including Major-General Edward Braddock (1695 - 1755), who consulted them during his disastrous 1755 expedition against the French-occupied Ohio River Valley (he was killed in the effort - but not for lack of cartographic reconnaissance). (more details)
One of the earliest obtainable maps to focus on all of Manhattan Island.
Map of the City and County of New York, with the adjacent country.
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This is an example of David Burr's rare 1840 map of New York City. This is one of the earliest commercial maps to specifically illustrate the full island of Manhattan. (more details)
'The Handsomest Horse in the World'.
Village Farm, East Aurora, N.Y.
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An impressive 1883 H. H. Cross broadside promoting the stud services of Village Farm, East Aurora, New York - then the premier trotting horse breeder in the United States. The view promotes the fine stud stock available at Village Farm, including Mambrino King, 'the handsomest horse in the world'. (more details)
Showcasing the Brooklyn Bridge.
View of New-York. And Vicinity.
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This is a c. 1885 John Bachmann chromolithograph bird's-eye view of New York City and its vicinity, including Brooklyn, Jersey City, and Hoboken. The work captures the city flourishing as a hub of commerce as it roared towards the absorption of its neighbors: Brooklyn and Queens. The harbor is busy with steamships and sailboats, and the railheads in Jersey City are depicted with trains steaming west - engines of the Industrial Revolution. (more details)
New York in the mid-19th century.
New-York and Environs, from Williamsburgh.
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This is an 1848 Edgar W. Foreman and Eliphalet M. Brown, Jr. bird's-eye view of New York City. The view looks west over the East River from Williamsburg towards lower Manhattan, offering a unique look at the Brooklyn waterfront life before the Civil War. (more details)
'As for the Subways,' Dr. Thomson wrote, 'they should never have been built'.
Real Rapid Transit No More Subways. / Plan to Eliminate Subways.
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These are the original 1927-1931 manuscript illustrations for T. Kennard Thomson's No More Subways initiative, intended to solve New York City's out-of-control traffic congestion. In line with the car-centric ideologies of Robert Moses (1888 - 1981), Thomson's plan called for the replacement of subways with segregated tiered roads, railroad tracks, and highways along New York's major avenues. (more details)
Iconic panorama of Manhattan.
New York from Bergen Hill : Hoboken.
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This is a large-format (20.75 x 45.5 in.) bird's-eye view map of New York City published in 1876 as a supplement to the Illustrated London News. It captures the city the same year Central Park was completed, following decades of population growth and on the cusp of even greater transformation at the turn of the 20th century, which would bring skyscrapers, bridges, and the subway. (more details)
The first edition of one of the most distinctive maps of the Dutch Golden Age.
Nova Belgica Et Anglia Nova.
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This is the rare 1634 first atlas edition of Willem Blaeu's foundational map of the American Northeast, presenting the regions settled by the Dutch (New Netherlands) and the English (New England). Uniquely oriented to the west, Blaeu's map covers the American coast from Virginia, past New York and Long Island to Cape Cod, New England, and Quebec. The map is the first of the region to depict the fur-bearing and food animals of the region accurately, and it does so in profusion. Between this imagery and the fleet of trade ships heading towards the coast, the decorative elements vividly emphasize the region's resource wealth. (more details)
Ephemeral plans for a new Thirteenth Avenue.
Map showing the perimeters of farms in Bloomingdale and the old roads and lanes as they existed one hundred years ago : belonging to the Cozine, Harson, Hopper, Hegeman, Stake, Stryker, Eden, Tevon, Haynes, Horsmanden, Reis, Kelly, Webber, Cutting, Astor, Emmett and other families.
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This is a John Bute Holmes 1879 cadastral map of Midtown West, including Times Square and the Theater District. It captures the area during a brief period of widespread development and redistricting. (more details)
A wonderful map of Little Italy, Nolita, and part of Soho that traces the history of these neighborhoods.
Map of Bayard's East Farm, Accurately Made from Old Maps, (not in Register's Office), From Conveyances on Record from NICHOLAS BAYARD, Sheriff's Sales, Lottery Lots, etc., etc.
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This is a John Bute Holmes 1869 cadastral map of modern day Little Italy and parts of the iconic neighborhoods of Nolita, Soho, and Chinatown in the borough of Manhattan in New York City - the only specific map of this area to appear in the 19th century. The map depicts the region from Broadway to Bowery and from Prince Street to Pell Street. Highly detailed, Holmes's map provides the viewer with a look at the neighborhood in 1869 and with an idea of how it developed. Streets area labeled, and Holmes provides both the former names of the streets and their current ones. Individual lots are identified by addresses, and those that fell victim to widening streets and a changing urban landscape are ghosted in using dashed lines. (more details)
Depicts the original boundaries of the Rutgers Farm, the first settlement on the Lower East Side.
Map Of The Rutger's Farm As it existed in 1784, Accurately Made From Reliable Data
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This is a John Bute Holmes 1874 cadastral map of the Lower East Side and Two Bridges neighborhoods, which have historically been considered one neighborhood. A traditionally immigrant, working class neighborhood, the map depicts from Oliver Street to Montgomery Street and from Division Street to the East River. (more details)
Dramatic view of Long Island.
Long Island, N.Y.
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This is a dramatic 1902 F. W. Fells chromolithograph panoramic view of Long Island, New York. The stunning view was issued to promote the Long Island Railroad and Long Island in general, at the time undergoing an explosion of development and economic growth. (more details)
Soho.
Map of the West Bayard Farm The Property of Nicholas and Stephen Bayard and the John Dyckman Dcd. Property.
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This is an 1866 John Bute Holmes cadastral maps of the western part of Soho, one of New York City's most interesting and vibrant neighborhoods. These lands were once part of the West Bayard Farm. (more details)
Depicts the neighborhood as it was in the 1790s: dominated by the Common Lands and long before Central Park was even conceived.
Map of the Common Lands from 76th to 93rd Street Showing the Old Streets and Plots As Surveyed and Mapped in 1796, by Cassimer T.H. Goerck, City Survey and resurveyed by Isaac T. Ludlam in 1822, (See Notes) And the Distance between these old Streets and our Present Streets.
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This is a John Bute Holmes 1874 cadastral map of the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan - the only specific map of this area to appear in the 19th century. The map depicts the region from Seventh Avenue (or at least where it would be if Central Park hadn't been built) to Second Avenue and from 93rd Street to 76th Street. The bulk of the map is occupied by the northern reaches of the Common Lands, including the boundary between the Common Lands and the village of Harlem. This boundary was a diagonal line approximately from the intersection of today's Second Avenue and 79th Street to what would be the intersection of 92nd Street and Seventh Avenue, if Central Park had not been constructed. Also evident are the early planning stages of what would become Park Avenue - some of New York city's most covented real estate. (more details)
'Versailles of the Atlantic' - the epitome of steamship luxury in the post-Titanic age.
French Line.
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This is a rare c. 1912 Richard Rummell chromolithograph view of the French Line steamship France on the Hudson River with New York City in the background. The France was the epitome of luxury in the post-Titanic age, dubbed the 'Versailles of the Atlantic'. (more details)
Earliest obtainable example of the influential Goerck-Mangin Plan of New York City - published while it was still relevant.
PLAN of the CITY OF NEW-YORK, with the recent and intended Improvements. New York, 1807.
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This important 1807 map of lower Manhattan, New York City, published by Isaac Riley, William Bridges, and Peter Maverick, is a most unusual piece with a confused and complex history. It predates the 1811 Commissioner's Plan, thus representing the definitive plan of New York City at the time of publication and exerting a profound influence on the developing street grid of Lower Manhattan. It is the earliest obtainable example of one of the most important founding cartographic documents relating to the development of New York's street grid - the Mangin-Goerck map. (more details)
Hellish Property Dispute at Hell Gate.
Map of Wards Island / Plan No. 3 of Partition of Waterrights at Ward's Island.
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This is a unique c. 1870 manuscript map and appraisal of property values on and around Wards Island (now part of Randalls and Wards Islands) in New York City prepared by surveyor Rudolph Rosa. It refers to an intense and consequential legal dispute over ownership of waters immediately surrounding the island, which at this time was primarily dedicated to hospitals and other institutions for people with physical and mental health problems. (more details)
Heart of the Hudson Valley.
Aero-View of Hudson New York 1923.
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This is a rare c. 1923 bird's-eye view of Hudson, New York, by the firm of Hughes and Bailey. Hudson is one of the most beloved and vibrant towns in the Mid-Hudson Valley. (more details)
A map of Hell's Kitchen that traces the development of the neighborhood.
Map of the Hermitage Farm and the Norton Estate.
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This is an 1872 John Bute Holmes cadastral map of the modern-day neighborhood of Hell's Kitchen in the borough of Manhattan in New York City. The map depicts the neighborhood from the Hudson River to Broadway (labeled as Bloomingdale Road) and from 48th Street to 39th Street. Highly detailed, Holmes's map provides the viewer with a look at the neighborhood as it was in 1872 and also projects an image of how it developed. Streets are labeled, and individual lots are identified by their addresses. Some elements are ghosted in using dashed lines, including Twelfth Avenue and several wharves. (more details)
The important first plan of New York City's Central Park - predates Olmsted and Vaux.
Map of the Lands Included in The Central Park, from a Topographical Survey, June 17th 1856. Plan for the Improvement of The Central Park, Adopted by the Commissioners, June 3rd 1856.
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These are two rare 1856 pre-Design Competition plans of Central Park drawn by the park project's first engineer-in-Chief Egbert Ludovicus Viele. Both plans extend from 59th street to 106th street, taking in the original grounds reserved for Central Park, as well as some of the adjacent streets and avenues. Viele's printed signature appears in the lower right quadrant of both maps. (more details)