Dec 16, 2022 10:00 EST
Rare Books, Autographs & Maps
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Estate / Collection: Collection of a New York Surveyor
[EAST VILLAGE]
EWEN, DANIEL. Map of Burnt Mill Point Situated in the Ninth Ward of the City of New York. Also a Chart of that Part of the East River. fronting the same. Large manuscript map in ink and colors on joined sheets, with "Surveyed Novr. 1824 by Daniel Ewen City Surveyor," in ink. The map mounted. 33 x 51 inches (85 x 130 cm). Losses along extremities and folds affecting the image, tears, stains.
A very fine and large color plan from 1824 at the time the Ninth Ward was expanded over the East River. This salt marshland was largely undeveloped to this point, being part of the old Stuyvesant grant and showing on early maps as the "Market Place." The map shows the area from Avenue B on land to the newly planned Tompkins and Mangin Streets over the East River at east and west, and 13th Street down to 8th Street from north to south, terminating in Pickets Ship Yard to the southeast. The street names were replaced by numbers after 1811. Upon receiving a charter from the city in 1825, the New York Dry Dock Company began amassing lands in the area known as Burnt Mill Point. This beautiful map depicts the low and high water lines and the soundings along the shoreline. A compass rose in the lower right is finely detailed. An imaginative and colorful plan of the growing city.
Estate / Collection: Collection of a New York Surveyor
[EAST VILLAGE]
EWEN, DANIEL. Map of Burnt Mill Point Situated in the Ninth Ward of the City of New York. Also a Chart of that Part of the East River. fronting the same. Large manuscript map in ink and colors on joined sheets, with "Surveyed Novr. 1824 by Daniel Ewen City Surveyor," in ink. The map mounted. 33 x 51 inches (85 x 130 cm). Losses along extremities and folds affecting the image, tears, stains.
A very fine and large color plan from 1824 at the time the Ninth Ward was expanded over the East River. This salt marshland was largely undeveloped to this point, being part of the old Stuyvesant grant and showing on early maps as the "Market Place." The map shows the area from Avenue B on land to the newly planned Tompkins and Mangin Streets over the East River at east and west, and 13th Street down to 8th Street from north to south, terminating in Pickets Ship Yard to the southeast. The street names were replaced by numbers after 1811. Upon receiving a charter from the city in 1825, the New York Dry Dock Company began amassing lands in the area known as Burnt Mill Point. This beautiful map depicts the low and high water lines and the soundings along the shoreline. A compass rose in the lower right is finely detailed. An imaginative and colorful plan of the growing city.
Auction: Rare Books, Autographs & Maps, Dec 16, 2022
