South West View of the City of New York 1768

by D. T. Valentine, David Thomas

$50 · Offered by Argosy Book Store

New York: D.T. Valentine, 1850. Engraving. 5 1/2 x 9 This engraving made for D.T. Valentine's Manual of the Common Council of the City of New York from 1850, depicts a view of New York City from the south as it would have looked in 1768. The image is based on a drawing made on the spot, near today's corner of Varick and Beach Streets in lower Manhattan, by British captain Thomas Howdell, and copied from an

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