New Arrivals
Novi Belgii Novaeque Angliae.
A map that is as historically important as it is attractive: it was the culmination of all the surveys conducted by the Dutch colonists of New Netherlands during their first three decades in America. It is also the first printed map to delineate the shape of Manhattan with relative accuracy;.....
PHELPS, Humphrey [New York: 1857] Phelps' New York City Map, With Portions of Brooklyn, Jersey City, Williamsburgh, Greenpoint, Astoria, and Hoboken… 25 x 45 ¾ inches. 25 x 45 ¾ inches. Lithographed wall map with fine original color, refreshed; professionally conserved & re-backed, with some stabilized tears and a few.....
Large, Untitled Chart of Long Island Sound, the Connecticut Shoreline, New York City & Vicinity, All of Long Island. [With three large, titled inset charts:] Chart Of Massachusetts Bay…/ Chart Of The East River Entrance To New York … / Hell Gate, And Its Approaches….
Rare. This was as authoritative a chart of these waters as was available at the time. Despite its density of detail, the chart was engraved with uncommon clarity. Its delineation of the Connecticut shoreline includes the many, small harbor islands, especially along the western shore. Also, all inlets, rivers and.....