Oct 10, 2013 - Sale 2324

Sale 2324 - Lot 270

Price Realized: $ 500
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 250 - $ 350
(NEW YORK CITY.) An early report on Central Park titled "Document No. 83: Board of Aldermen." Folding hand-colored map, 2 folding tables. Pages [1459]-1488. 8vo, lacking wrappers, stitched as issued; map detached and worn with separations at folds. [New York], 2 January 1852

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Records the early debate on whether to build the city's showpiece park at Jones Woods on the East River or the much larger Central Park tract.