Newly Added Antique Map Inventory

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

1862 Valentine View of Trinity Place and Trinity Church (Financial District), New York City

120.00 USD — Fri, 12 Jun 2015 16:37:00 +0000

This is a beautiful view of Trinity Place in New York City issued by D. T. Valentine. The view looks southward on Trinity Place with Trinity Church and the Trinity Church cemetery on the left. It features a gravedigger near a grave, some trees and bushes in the foreground and surrounding buildings. Illustrates the third and current Trinity Church buildings, built in 1846, which, with its spire and cross was the highest point in New York until 1890. This is a beautifully drawn view of Fraunce’s Tavern located on the corner of Broad St. and Pearl St. in Lower Manhattan. The view features Fraunces Tavern, the headquarters for George Washington during the Revolutionary War while negotiating with the British regarding their evacuation. It was from here, on December 4, 1783, that George Washington bade farewell to the officers of the Continental Army. This is an extremely scarce 1846 broadside issued by John Hutchings to promote the awareness of John Fitch as a pioneer of steam navigation. Fitch was an instrument maker working in the later part of the 18th century. As an early pioneer of steam navigation, Fitch tested several steamboats on the Delaware River between 1785 and 1788. One of these, the Perseverance, is depicted in the upper right quadrant of this sheet. A fun cartographic curiosity, this is an 1898 shoe advertisement set against and backdrop of New York City. The view, prepared in 1897 by Moses King, has here been coopted to demonstrate the prosperity of the Regal Shoe Company. The caption describes how, if all the shoes they cold in 1897 were made into a single shoe that shoe would be 34 miles long and 17 miles higher - hence the illustration at hand. And indeed, the Regal Shoe Company, founded by Elmer J. A remarkable and uncommon large format map of Long Island issued in 1904 by the U.S. Geological Survey. The map covers the whole of Long Island as well as adjacent parts of New York City and the continental coastline west of Bridgeport, Connecticut. This map was prepared from data collected by A. C. Veatch and Isaiah Bowman in 1903 to illustrate water wells, pumping stations, and other waterworks throughout Long Island. This is a fine 1840 first edition example of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge's 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. This is 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. An uncommon early manuscript cadastral map and document recording land transactions on Manhattan's Upper West Side, near Central Park. The manuscript, dated 1856, features an eastward oriented manuscript map detailing the street and property lots between Central Park and Broadway, here identified as Bloomingdale Road, and between 85th and 89th streets. This area includes parts of modern-day Central Park West, Columbus Avenue, and Amsterdam Avenue. This is a rare 1871 example Vaux & Olmstead's map of part of Prospect Park, Brooklyn. His map focuses on the section of Prospect Park now occupied by Wollman Rink and the adjacent Concert Grove. Pathways, individual trees, pavilions, boat landings, seats, and fountains and depicted. As with their most famous work, Central Park, Vaux and Olmstead were meticulous in their design of Prospect Park, with every tree, pond, and bench planned. This is a scarce 1871 map of Canal Park or Canal St. Park, New York City by Kellogg and Pilat. It shows the plan of improvements of Canal Street Park, located between Canal Street and West Street above Holland Tunnel. The map notes the location of trees and shrubbery within the triangular park. Originally established in 1686 by King James II, the area used to be part of the Lispenard Meadows and apparently used to be submerged during high tide. This is a scarce 1871 map of Tribeca Park or Beach Street Park, New York City by Kellogg and Pilat. It shows the plans of improvements of Beach Street Park, located between Beach Street and West Broadway. The location of trees and shrubbery is noted within the triangular park. Originally part of the Lispenard Swamp or Lispenard Meadows, the park was named after Beach Street, itself a corruption of the name 'Paul Bache' the son-in-law of Leonard Lispenard. This is a scarce 1871 map of the Duane St. Park of Duane Park in New York City by Kellogg and Pilat. It shows the plans of improvements to the park located between Duane Street and Hudson St. The location of trees and shrubbery is noted within the triangular park. Duane Park was named after James Duane, the first mayor of New York after the Revolutionary War. This is a scarce 1871 map of Herald Square in New York City by Kellogg and Pilat. The map shows the plans of improvement of the square located between west 34th st and west 35th st and between Broadway and Sixth Avenue. It depicts the location of trees and shrubbery within the triangular square. Herald Square, along with the southern Greeley Square form a bot-tie square in Manhattan. This is a scarce 1871 map of Greeley Square Park in New York City by Kellogg and Pilat. The map shows the plans of improvement of the park located between west 32nd St and west 33rdd St and between Broadway and Sixth Avenue. It depicts the location of trees and shrubbery within the triangular park. Greeley Square, located in the middle of the old printing and newspaper district, was named after Horace Greeley, the editor of the New York Tribune. A stunning and rare 1868 view of the island of Manhattan, New York City by W. C. Rogers. The view depicts the entire island of Manhattan with Hoboken as well as parts of Brooklyn and Queens. Important buildings, especially churches are depicted with considerable accuracy. The harbor itself is full of sailing ships. Prepared for inclusion in the 1868 edition of Joseph Shannon�s Manual of The Corporation of the City of New York . A stunning and rare 1868 Map of the northern part of the island of Manhattan, New York city by W. C. Rogers. The map covers the upper part of Manhattan, above 86th street (including Morningside Heights, Manhattan Valley, Harlem, Inwood, the Upper West Side, the Upper East Side, etc...) in extraordinary detail, depicting streets, buildings, estates and in many cases individual trees. This is a fine 1913 map of New York City by Rand McNally and Company. The map covers the entirety of New York City, including the boroughs of Manhattan, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Queens and part of Hoboken and Jersey City, New Jersey. It includes Roosevelt Island, Governor's Island, Ellis Island, Rikers Island (along with 'extension being filled in'), Wards Island and Randall Island. A large inset in the top right quadrant features Greater New York. Fort Washington is identified. This is an exceptionally scarce 1925 chromolithograph C. S. Hammond and Company map and view of New York City and vicinity. The view extends from Raritan Bay north to Croton Point and east as far as Huntington, covering all of Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, Staten Island, and adjacent parts of New Jersey, Westchester, Connecticut, and Nassau County (Long Island). Individual streets, railroads, parks, rivers, islands, bridges are noted throughout. This is an extremely rare example of G. Woolworth Colton's 1883 vertical pocket map of New York. This important map, first issued in 1865, marks a significant rethinking of the standard Manhattan map. Previous maps of New York City tended to represent only the lower parts of Manhattan (on the Burr model) or orient the city horizontally with the top of the map facing west (as in the Commissioner's Plan). An exceptionally scarce 1852 map of New York City by Charles Magnus. Essentially two maps on one sheet. The left hand map focuses on Manhattan and adjacent parts of Brooklyn. It extends northwards as far as 51st street. The right hand map focuses on Brooklyn and Williamsburg when they were considered separate cities. It covers Williamsburg as far as Morril Street and extends westward south of Division Avenue (current day Broadway) as far as Gowanus Bay and 59th Street.

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Newly Added Antique Map Inventory

1862 Valentine View of Trinity Place and Trinity Church (Financial District), New York City