Colton's New Map of Long Island

by George W. Colton, Charles B.

$4,800 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

The rarest nineteenth-century map of Long Island With a large inset of Brooklyn, New York, Jersey City, Hoboken, etc. This is probably the largest commercially published map of Long Island to date, which indicates the increasing population and importance of Long Island. Development in the eighteen years since the publication of the 1865 map has been dramatic. Explosive growth can be seen throughout Queens, especially in Jamaica and Garden City. Railroads now crisscross

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