Jun 11, 2009 - Sale 2183

Sale 2183 - Lot 102

Unsold
Estimate: $ 12,000 - $ 18,000
RATZER, BERNARD. Plan of the City of New York. Large and beautifully engraved city plan, 600x905 mm, wide margins; beautifully matted and framed. London: Kitchin, 1776 [but circa 1831]

Additional Details

Apparently an unrecorded second state of the map, on paper watermarked "Ruse & Turners 1831." Cumming, in his monograph on the Montresor-Ratzer-Sauthier series, mentions a restrike on Ruse & Turners paper, but is unsure whether the watermark is dated 1831 or 1851.