Dec 16, 2022 10:00 EST
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
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Estate / Collection: Collection of a New York Surveyor
[OUT WARD]
A highly detailed map of the newly designed Out Ward. A finely detailed ink map in ink of irregular shape on sheets of joined paper, circa 1790s, not titled or signed. The map is laid down with differing paper extending the image to the border. The full sheet 21 x 39 inches (54 x 100 cm). The map is highly worn with losses, some later markings within the image mostly updating the street names shortly thereafter in about 1805 or so, in need of stabilization and sold with all faults.
A highly detailed plan of ancient appearance of the neighborhood near today's Nolita. The plan shows Broad Way to the West, Bowery (here "Road to Boston") to the East, Bayard Street to the South, and Prince Street to the North. The map has the irregular boundaries of the neighborhood: Rhynders Street, the westernmost street to the south (left side of map) appears on Ratzer's 1766 survey with no streets laid out above it, just trees the large Fresh Water "Collect" pond on Bayard's Farm. Rhynders Street was later incorporated into Centre Street. The incomplete section of Broad Way at upper left would be completed in this period. Rhynders Street is just above Mary Street (a street dated to 1797) later known as Orange Street and today's Baxter Street. While Mulberry and Mott Streets had appeared on maps as early as the 1750s, in this section at this time they were known as Catharine Street and Winne Street. Viewers today will recognize the triangular area here in between William (now Broome) and Oliver (now Spring) Streets, still present, and the road above here labeled as Pitt Street, later Elm Street, was renamed Lafayette Street in 1905. A fascinating early map from the Mangin-Goerck period, when the streets near the Collect Pond were first imagined.
Estate / Collection: Collection of a New York Surveyor
[OUT WARD]
A highly detailed map of the newly designed Out Ward. A finely detailed ink map in ink of irregular shape on sheets of joined paper, circa 1790s, not titled or signed. The map is laid down with differing paper extending the image to the border. The full sheet 21 x 39 inches (54 x 100 cm). The map is highly worn with losses, some later markings within the image mostly updating the street names shortly thereafter in about 1805 or so, in need of stabilization and sold with all faults.
A highly detailed plan of ancient appearance of the neighborhood near today's Nolita. The plan shows Broad Way to the West, Bowery (here "Road to Boston") to the East, Bayard Street to the South, and Prince Street to the North. The map has the irregular boundaries of the neighborhood: Rhynders Street, the westernmost street to the south (left side of map) appears on Ratzer's 1766 survey with no streets laid out above it, just trees the large Fresh Water "Collect" pond on Bayard's Farm. Rhynders Street was later incorporated into Centre Street. The incomplete section of Broad Way at upper left would be completed in this period. Rhynders Street is just above Mary Street (a street dated to 1797) later known as Orange Street and today's Baxter Street. While Mulberry and Mott Streets had appeared on maps as early as the 1750s, in this section at this time they were known as Catharine Street and Winne Street. Viewers today will recognize the triangular area here in between William (now Broome) and Oliver (now Spring) Streets, still present, and the road above here labeled as Pitt Street, later Elm Street, was renamed Lafayette Street in 1905. A fascinating early map from the Mangin-Goerck period, when the streets near the Collect Pond were first imagined.
Auction: Rare Books, Autographs & Maps, Dec 16, 2022
