Brooklyn May 1849. Manuscript plat map of a portion of the Fort Greene section of Brooklyn, New York.

by Willard Day, City Surveyor

$950 · Offered by James Arsenault & Company

Brooklyn, 1849. Manuscript map, 13 x 27.75,” ink and watercolor on wove paper. CONDITION: Fair, damp-stained, soiled, some separation of paper from backing at edges, selvage largely perished, minor chipping at short tears at edges. A manuscript plat map of several blocks in Brooklyn’s present-day Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood during the initial phase of real estate

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