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One of the Best 19th Century Maps of the Neighborhood Between Union Square and Washington Square Park.
Superb separately issued lithographed plat map of this Manhattan neighborhood, with original, publisher's, hand-color.
The main thoroughfare running through the map is University Place, and much of the area shown by the map is today occupied by New York University.
This is one a pair of maps that was the produced by Dr. Windwart, to illustrate the old and modern geography of the city just west of Fourth Avenue. The companion map (not present here) is subtitled: Second or Northern Part from Fifteenth to Thirtieth Streets. . . Although the map was published as a pair, they easily work as standalone pieces.
Windward was one of several 19th-century New York City mapmakers who were interested in the interaction of the old and new city. John Bute Holmes is perhaps the best-remembered of those historical cartographers, and a selection of his maps can be found here: John+Bute+Holmes+maps. Richard Cooke continued that mapmaking tradition into the 1890s.
The map was drawn by A. Dulon, who apparently went on to a mapmaking career in Australia in the 1880s.
Rare. Worldcat locates only one example of the pair (at the New York State Library) and no individuals.