Subject: New York
Period: 1861 (dated)
Publication: D.T. Valentine's Manual
Color: Hand Color
Size:
6.5 x 8.5 inches
16.5 x 21.6 cm
Handsome small map of the entrance to New York Harbor based on Bellin's map, "Baye et Port d'York, Capitale de la Nouvelle York" of 1764. The city is shown as a tiny village with other settlements including Neversink, Gravesend, Newark, Woodbridge and Ambois. Delicately engraved title cartouche.
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Condition: B
Remargined at left. Later color.