Newly Added Antique Map Inventory

Selection of Rare and Antique Maps recently added to the New York City category of Geographicus Antique Map Gallery.

1891 U.S. Coast Survey Map of New York City: Harlem River, Hell Gate, Roosevelt Island

1500.00 USD — Mon, 13 May 2013 19:25:00 +0000

An extremely scarce and important 1891 nautical chart or maritime map depicting New York City's Hell Gate, the East River, the Harlem River, Roosevelt Island (Blackwell's Island), Ward's Island, and Randall's Island, as well as portions of adjacent Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens. As suggested by the title, the map focuses on the East River from the southern tip of Roosevelt Island northwards to the northern tip of Randall's Island and the Harlem River. This is a rare 1866 U.S. Coast Survey nautical chart or maritime map of New York City, its harbor, and environs. Though variants of this chart appeared earlier, the present example is most likely the first independent issue of this map in its full completed form. This is moreover among the first 19th century charts to depict New York City as we know it today, including Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx and Staten Island. Adjacent Jersey City, Newark and Hoboken are also included. This is Egbert L. Viele's 1865 topography and waterways map of Manhattan, one of the scarcest, most important and most enduring maps of New York City ever published. Covering the entirety of Manhattan Island, Viele's map details the canals, swamps, rivers, ditches, ponds, meadows, and drainage basins of Manhattan as they existed prior to the city's urban development. A scarce and impressive colonial period 1749 George Grierson / Mark Tiddeman nautical chart of New York City and harbor. Oriented to the west and centered on Coney Island (Cunny I.), Grierson's chart covers from Staten Island to Jamaica Bay and from Sandy Hook to Harlem (northern Manhattan). There is a compass rose in the lower left quadrant. Relief, towns, and mills are represented pictorially. Numerous depth soundings fill the harbor and sand banks are rendered with stippling. This is a rare U.S. Coast Survey nautical chart or maritime map of New York City, its harbor, and environs. First appearing in its completed form in 1866, this is among the first 19th century charts to depict New York City as we know it today, including Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx and Staten Island. Adjacent Jersey City, Newark and Hoboken are also included. It offers comprehensive inland detail throughout noting street grids, parks, towns and communities. This is an extraordinary 1867 hand colored map or plan of the grounds that today house the American Museum of Natural History in New York City. It depicts from 77th Street north to the intersection of 81st Street and 8th Avenue (Central Park West), including part of Central Park, and shows the ground layout of Manhattan Square, and the arrangement of the principal buildings of the zoological collection. This is a beautiful and unusual little map of the southeastern corner of New York City's Central Park prepared and printed for inclusion in the 1867 Tenth Annual Report of the Board of Commissioners of the Central Park. It depicts from 61st Street south to the intersection of 58th street and 5th Avenue and shows the planned ornamentation and redirection of traffic to accommodate the park drives. A scarce map of 1837 map New York City issued by Humphrey Phelps. This map details the southern part of Manhattan from the battery to 14th Street, though it technically extends, though with less detail, all the way to 41st street. Phelps identifies all streets, parks, and piers. Numeric tables to the left and right of the map proper also provide reference to public offices, museums, markets, hospitals, and churches. An extraordinary unique find, this is an original 1897 membership certificate for the Merchants' Association of New York. The certificate was issued for one A. E. Sinauton (sp?), a class B non-resident member of the association, number 166. The Merchants' Association of New York was founded in 1897 to further and develop commerce in and around New York City. The association also engaged in political lobbying, charitable works, and encouraged ethical business practices among its members. An interesting and unusual map, this is an 1856 reissue of the 1801 Mangin-Goerck Plan. Those who know New York�s shoreline will pause at the perfect blocks and ridged angles of this plan no more accurate today than it was in 1801 when Joseph Mangin first presented it. Mangin, a talented French architect, and Casimir Goerck, an established New York Surveyor, were commissioned by the Common Council of New York to prepare a new regulatory map of the city. A fine 1840 first edition example of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge city plan or map of New York City. The map coves southern Manhattan from the Battery northwards to 42nd street as well as portions of adjacent Jersey City, Brooklyn, and Williamsburg. Governors Island and Ellis Island appear in the harbor. Massive proposed docks on the Hudson River, none of which actually materialized, as well as tentative landfills on the East Side and in Williamsburg are ghosted in. A highly appealing 1912 large format folio map of New York City issued for the New Century Atlas of Counties of the State of New York . The map covers from Westchester to Sandy Hook and from Paterson to Nassau County, inclusive of the five boroughs of New York City: Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens, and Staten Island. There is appealing detail throughout with the street grinds in the more developed regions clearly represented. Two extremely rare 1856 pre-Design Competition plans of Central Park drawn by the park project's first engineer-in-Chief egbert Ludovicus Viele. Both plans extend from 59th street to 106th street, taking in the original grounds reserved for Central Park, as well as some of the adjacent streets and avenues. Viele's printed signature appears in the lower right quadrant of both maps. An exceptional and extremely scarce 1867 John Bute Holmes map of New York City's Midtown East and Murray Hill neighborhoods. Holmes' map covers from 30th street to 44th street and from Broadway (Bloomingdale Road) to Lexington Avenue. This is a beautiful 1859 view of the Quarantine Buildings on Staten Island, New York. In September 1858, months after this view was drawn, the residents of Staten Island, protesting against the expansion of the quarantine station, burned down the entire facility. Some of the abandoned buildings still stand on the northeastern shore of Staten Island. A beautiful example of J. N. Bellin's important 1764 map of New York City. The map depicts what is today the Financial District at the southern tip of Manhattan between the Hudson River and the 'Canal de la Longue Isle' or east River. Bellin's plan of New York is taken directly from an inset attached to J. B. L. Franquelin's 1693 regional manuscript map. This is an uncommon example of the 1828 view of New York, drawn by J. B. Smith. It features a lovely view of the New York Harbor from the south, looking across to Manhattan. Castle Williams on Governors Island is visible in the foreground. Countless church towers are visible in the background while many small boats can be seen sailing in the water. This view was engraved by J. B. Neagle as part of Malte-Brun's System of Geography , Vol. I., published in New York by Samuel Walker. A remarkable discovery, this is the second earliest published, and the earliest obtainable, view of New York City (the earliest being Joost Hartgers unobtainable view of 1651). Issued around 1653 by the Dutch cartographer Joannes Blaeu, this view details the southern tip of Manhattan, then New Amsterdam (Nieuw Amsterdam), as it appeared under the Dutch colonial government. A rare possibly unique find, this is G. W. and C. B. Colton�s magnificent 1897 panoramic birds-eye view of New York City. Presented in chromolithograph color this map reveals Manhattan, Brooklyn, and Queens as seen from high above Jersey City and Hoboken, which themselves appear in the lower left quadrant. The area covered runs from the Bronx to the Statue of Liberty and from Hoboken to Brooklyn and Governor�s Island. This is a rare map of Westchester County, New York, the Bronx, and upper Manhattan during the American Revolutionary War issued for John Marshall�s 1832 edition of the Life of Washington . The map covers the strategically important region north of New York City as far as the Croton River and Tellers Point (Croton Point). Various rivers, roads, and topographical elements are noted.

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Newly Added Antique Map Inventory

1891 U.S. Coast Survey Map of New York City: Harlem River, Hell Gate, Roosevelt Island