Estate / Collection: Collection of a New York Surveyor

[MAP - UPPER EAST SIDE]
HOLMES, JOHN BUTE. Map of the Common Lands from 76th to 93rd Street showing the old streets & plots as Surveyed and Mapped in 1796 by Cassimer T. H. Goerck, City Surveyor and resurveyed by Isaac T. Ludlam in 1822, and the distance between those old streets and our present streets. New York: J. B. Holmes, October 1874. Lithographed map by Louis E. Neuman, hand colored, old linen backing, red ribbon border. Sheet measures 29 x 25 inches (73.5 x 63.5 cm). Somewhat toned, cracking and chipping to the margins, one long tear at lower edge, a loss near the upper left corner, a few pale stains.