(NEW YORK CITY) TO BE SOLD At the Merchants Exchange On Thur

Sale 2384 - Lot 88

Price Realized: $ 688

?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price

Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750

(NEW YORK CITY.) TO BE SOLD At the Merchants Exchange, On Thursday January 22d. 1835. At 11 o'clock A.M. By James Bleecker. Exceptionally scarce separately-issued lithographed or xylotypographed real estate auction map, showing the corner of Mott Street and Broome Street in present-day Little Italy. 365x445 mm; few light foxing marks and mounting points on verso, generally in very good condition. New York, 1835

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The ephemeral nature of broadside maps such as this one has rendered them quite rare; we are unable to find any other pre-1850 Bleecker firm maps of Lower Manhattan ever coming to the market. James Bleecker and his sons were apparently the foremost real estate auctioneers during this formative period in Manhattan history; a few examples of their maps are preserved at the NYPL, MCNY, and NYHS.