Details

Subject(s)

• Manhattan (New York, N.Y.)—Maps, Manuscript—Early works to 1800—Facsimiles [Browse]
• New York (N.Y.)—Maps, Manuscript [Browse]

Related name

• Nicholls, Richard, 1624-1672 [Browse]
• Hayward, George [Browse]
• Moore, George Henry, 1823-1892 [Browse]
• Valentine, D. T. (David Thomas), 1801-1869 [Browse]
• Sims, Richard, 1816-1898 [Browse]

Former owner

• Fox, N. B. [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Facsimiles [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Historical maps—New York (State)—New York [Browse]

Related work(s)

New York (N.Y.). Manual of the corporation of the city of New York, for 1863. [Browse]

Notes

• "Lith. by G. Hayward, 171 Pearl St. N.Y., for D.T. Valentine's Manual, 1863."
• Covers all of Manhattan Island, New York (N.Y.) Shows vegetation, a few buildings and placenames.Shows property and lots.
• Date of situation 1664-1668--cf. Cohen, Paul E. and Robert T. Augustyn. Manhattan in Maps. NY: Rizzoli, 1997, p. 44.
• Date of this ms. copy 1862 Mar.
• Title as commonly used--cf. Cohen, ibid.
• Oriented with north to right.
• Includes note on distances.
• Inset: The towne of New-York (scale [ca. 1:2376]).

Provenance

Historic Maps copy is from the estate of N.B. Fox, Princeton class of 1899.

Inset has prominent title

• Towne of New-York

OCLC

58662687

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