Jun 22, 2023 - Sale 2642

Sale 2642 - Lot 81

Price Realized: $ 875
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
(NEW YORK CITY.) Group of 4 nineteenth-century pocket maps and guidebooks. New York, vd

Additional Details

- Humphrey Phelps. New York City Map. Lithographed map of Manhattan with parts of Jersey City, Hoboken, and Brooklyn with indexed panels of street guides and ship decoration in the Hudson River. 17 1/2x31 1/2 inches overall, wide margins, folding into plain card covers; small points of wear at fold intersections, competent pencil sketch of country estate on verso. New York: James Miller, [1857].

- Matthew Dripps. Map of the City of New York. Hand-colored lithographed map of Manhattan and part of the Bronx. 40x9 inches overall, ample margins, folding into publisher's gilt-blocked cloth case; faint stains and unobtrusive repairs to fold versos. New York, 1869.

- Devlin & Company, Clothiers. The Metropolis Explained and Illustrated in Familiar Form, with a Map. 61, [2] pages with wood-engraved illustrations and a hand-colored lithographed folding map by G.W & C.B. Colton loosely tucked into rear pocket. 8vo, publisher's gilt-blocked blue cloth, map 27x16 inches overall; closed tear at lower section of the map. New York, 1871.

- David Franks. The New-York Directory for 1786. [Facsimile]. 98 pages, with an engraved folding map. 8vo, publisher's gilt-blocked blue cloth, spine a little chipped, map 13 1/2x12 1/2 inches, small closed tear at mount. New York: John Disturnell, 1876.