Dec 16, 2022 10:00 EST
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
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Estate / Collection: Collection of a New York Surveyor
[MANGIN-GOERCK]
A Map of Ground Belonging to John Laurence and Effingham Embree. Surveyed and and laidout into lots in the year 1788 by Casimir Th Goerck, City Surveyor, and copied in the year 1818 by Joseph Fr. Mangin, City Surveyor. Manuscript map in ink on paper with wash color. The map is backed. 29 x 14 inches (74 x 36 cm). Dust soiling and small losses to lower corners and fold.
A wonderful Joseph-Francois Mangin copy of Casimir Goerck's 1788 survey of lands owned by John Laurence and his son-in-law, the well-regarded Federal period clock maker Effingham Embree (1759-1817). On Bernard Ratzer's 1766 survey this area is shown just west of Bowry Lane as "Dykeman" and "Herrin" with delineation of the roads here named Bleeker Street and Great George Street. On the current map, the lands belong to "Herrings Estate" and "Widow Deickman's Ground." The ink updating of the street names such as "Clermont Street" for First Street here is likely by Mangin as this would become Mercer Street by 1807.
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Estate / Collection: Collection of a New York Surveyor
[MANGIN-GOERCK]
A Map of Ground Belonging to John Laurence and Effingham Embree. Surveyed and and laidout into lots in the year 1788 by Casimir Th Goerck, City Surveyor, and copied in the year 1818 by Joseph Fr. Mangin, City Surveyor. Manuscript map in ink on paper with wash color. The map is backed. 29 x 14 inches (74 x 36 cm). Dust soiling and small losses to lower corners and fold.
A wonderful Joseph-Francois Mangin copy of Casimir Goerck's 1788 survey of lands owned by John Laurence and his son-in-law, the well-regarded Federal period clock maker Effingham Embree (1759-1817). On Bernard Ratzer's 1766 survey this area is shown just west of Bowry Lane as "Dykeman" and "Herrin" with delineation of the roads here named Bleeker Street and Great George Street. On the current map, the lands belong to "Herrings Estate" and "Widow Deickman's Ground." The ink updating of the street names such as "Clermont Street" for First Street here is likely by Mangin as this would become Mercer Street by 1807.
Auction: Rare Books, Autographs & Maps, Dec 16, 2022
