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Plan for New York City

An Unflinching Look at New York in the 60s. A Fine, Boxed Set of the Six-Volume Modernist Plans to Change the City.

Price: $1,600.00

Map of Corlear's Hook Farm, Situated in the present Seventh Ward, Bounded by Montgomery Street on the west, Division and Grand Streets on the north and northeast, and East River on the South, and Including The Estate's of Dr. Nicholas Romayne, Nicholas Gouverneur, James Blanchard (Evers Estate), Nicholas Cruger and Nicholas Low, Edward Laight, Stringham and Quackenbos, McComb and Roome, William Low, The Gardner Estate, Lands of the Corporation under Water, etc.

This is a rare 1881 Heinrich Windwart map of the New York City's Lower East Side, from Grand Street to the East River and from Montgomery to East Street, a region once known as the Corlear's Hook Farm. This is most likely the earliest specific published map if this part of New York. The meticulously compiled map illustrates multiple estates, including those of Nicholas Romayne, Nicholas Gouverneur, James Blanchard, Nicholas Cruger, Nicholas Low, Edward Laight, Stringham, Quackenbos, McComb, Roome, Willima Low, and the Gardner state. It illustrates the original waterline of Manhattan before the mid-19th century landfills. IN addition, it shows underwater lands belonging to the Corporation of New York according to the legislative act of 1871.

Price: $2,900.00

A Plan of the City of New-York & its Environs to Greenwich, on the North or Hudson's River, and to Crown Point, on the East or Sound River, Shewing the Several Streets, Publick Buildings, Docks, Forts & Battery . . . Surveyed in the Winter, 1775 . . .

The First Large Scale Plan of New York City -- Including Early Breweries and Pleasure Gardens

Price: $65,000.00

To His Excellency Sr. Henry Moore Bart. Captain General and Governour in Chief in & over the Province of New York & the Territories depending thereon . . . This Plan of the City of New York, Is most Humbly Inscribed by His Excellency's Most Obedient Servant. Bernd. Ratzen . . .

First State of the "Ratzen Plan"  -- "One of the Most Important Colonial Maps of New York City."

Price: $65,000.00

[Manhattan / Lower East Side]

Hand-colored lithographed map of part of the Lower East Side, New York City, published by Spielmann & Brush in their very rare atlas Certified Copies of Original Maps of Property in New York City (1881). The last copy of that atlas was on the market with a New York City bookdealer for $12,500.

Price: $345.00

[New York Harbor]

Scarce early sailing chart of the entrance to New York harbor and approaches.

Price: $495.00