?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
Bromley, George W. Land Book of the Borough of Manhattan City of New York.
New York: G.W. Bromley & Co., 1925.
Desk and Library Edition, oblong folio, 4-page street index, five pages of colored outline and index maps, and 191 colored plate maps; bound in publisher's black cloth stamped inred; lacking 12 pages of correction slips at end, Volume Five outline and index map detached with corner torn away, large closed tear to plates 145/146; three-inch closed tear to plates 179/180; joints starting and fraying, spine with two horizontal tears, rubbed at extremities; 15 ¾ x 11 ¼ in.
Published at the peak of the skyscraper construction boom, this atlas came out before some of the most iconic Manhattan buildings that now define its skyline were constructed, including the Manhattan Trust Building (1929-1930), the Chrysler Building (1930), and the Empire State Building (1931). Laid-in is C.S. Hammond's Handy Reference Map of New York City.
From the Library of the late Stanley DeForest Scott, sold to benefit the Library of the Grolier Club.
