Dec 16, 2022 10:00 EST
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
29
Estate / Collection: Collection of a New York Surveyor
[BLEECKER, ANTHONY]
A Map of Fourteen Lots of Land East of Broad Way belonging to Anthony Bleecker, Esq. A manuscript plan in ink and colors on paper, with "New York Feb. 28 1804, Surveyed by Charles Loss, sworn Surveyor/copied May 24, 1825 by Edwin Smith." The map is backed. 18 x 14 1/4 inches (46 x 36 cm). Closed tears, stains and small losses, later pencil markings within the image.
A fine plan of lots belonging to Anthony Bleecker, the son of Anthony Lispenard Bleecker and friend to Washington Irving and William Cullen Bryan. Bleecker's father, descended from the Schuyler family, had been a shipping merchant and real estate auctioneer in New York City, eventually becoming one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in 18th century New York (by 1818, members of the Bleecker family occupied four of the 28 seats on the New York Stock Exchange). He died in 1816, leaving his Manhattan lands to his sons, and the present survey, first conducted in 1804 by Charles Loss and copied in 1825, divides up a parcel east of Broad Way into 14 lots, bounded on the north by "Peters Lot" and on the east by "Warners Lott." A fine and attractive early 19th century plan relating to the family for which both Bleecker and Lispenard Streets are named.
Estate / Collection: Collection of a New York Surveyor
[BLEECKER, ANTHONY]
A Map of Fourteen Lots of Land East of Broad Way belonging to Anthony Bleecker, Esq. A manuscript plan in ink and colors on paper, with "New York Feb. 28 1804, Surveyed by Charles Loss, sworn Surveyor/copied May 24, 1825 by Edwin Smith." The map is backed. 18 x 14 1/4 inches (46 x 36 cm). Closed tears, stains and small losses, later pencil markings within the image.
A fine plan of lots belonging to Anthony Bleecker, the son of Anthony Lispenard Bleecker and friend to Washington Irving and William Cullen Bryan. Bleecker's father, descended from the Schuyler family, had been a shipping merchant and real estate auctioneer in New York City, eventually becoming one of the wealthiest and most powerful men in 18th century New York (by 1818, members of the Bleecker family occupied four of the 28 seats on the New York Stock Exchange). He died in 1816, leaving his Manhattan lands to his sons, and the present survey, first conducted in 1804 by Charles Loss and copied in 1825, divides up a parcel east of Broad Way into 14 lots, bounded on the north by "Peters Lot" and on the east by "Warners Lott." A fine and attractive early 19th century plan relating to the family for which both Bleecker and Lispenard Streets are named.
Auction: Rare Books, Autographs & Maps, Dec 16, 2022
