Plan of the City of New York, in North America: Surveyed in the Years 1766 & 1767

by B. Ratzer

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Three joined sheets, totaling 46 ¼ x 34 5/8 inches, dissected & mounted on linen as originally issued. Some light discoloration but overall excellent with ample margins. Archivally framed. Rare; a superb example of the best executed and most beautiful, printed map one can acquire of early New York, and arguably also the masterpiece of 18th-century urban cartography of an American city. In addition to a plan of the city

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