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Paperback / softback. New.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items.

paperback. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Hardback. New.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

New York: M.J. Roth, Printer and Stationer, 1883. 3.5" x 5.5". [4] pp, illustrations. Caption title [as issued], folded. Woodcut illustration of horse and carriage on title page, woodcut illustration of obelisk on second page. Light age toning. Light horizontal fold, light wear. About Very Good. This rare, ephemeral pamphlet prints the Central Park Carriage Service's pick-up locations, points of interest, details of Central Park's mileage and acreage, names and locations of all park gates, history and description of the Obelisk monument, and general visitor information such as availability of refreshments and location of police. OCLC 58764784 [1-NYHS].

New York, 1872. Hardcover. Very good + condition. Maps of Manhattan's west side, prior to the completion of Central Park, which was finished in 1876. The maps were compiled by longtime New York City Department of Public Works map clerk and city surveyor Otto Sackersdorff, noted for his 'Maps of Farms, Commonly called The Blue Book, 1815". The Blue Book was not published until 1868, as a demonstration of northern economic might at the end of the Civil War. The real estate maps show property lines, existing roads, parks, shorelines, wetlands, and the Manhattan grid, extending from west of 8th Avenue at 59th Street and Columbus Circle up to 222nd Street and Spuyten Duyvil & Kingsbridge. Parks and major thoroughfares include: Central Park, St. Nicholas Avenue, Fort Washington Park, Kingsbridge Road, and High Bridge Park. Folio, 15 x 20 1/2", 14 maps in total: 1 full page and 13 double page (28 x 20") hand colored lithographed map sheets. Each map contiguous with one another. Period quarter green gilt… Ler mais

New York: Edward S. Ewen, 1873. Hand colored lithographed folding map, sectioned and linen-backed as issued. 24 x 67 inches. Folds in publisher's cloth case, upper cover detached, publisher's title on the front pastedown. Signature on verso dated 1873. Hand colored lithographed folding map, sectioned and linen-backed as issued. 24 x 67 inches. Early Large Scale Mapping of the Development of Upper Manhattan. The famed Commissioner's plan of 1811, which laid out New York's street's in the grid pattern which would dictate the city's development, anticipate its massive population growth in the 19th century and cartographically define the city to this day, ended ubruptly and arbitrarily at 155th street. In 1865, Comptroller of the Central Park Commission Andrew Haswell Green began planning for development north of the grid. With the war at an end and with the construction of Central Park completed, Green saw the need for the development of Manhattan north of the park and the advantages of it being… Ler mais