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Old Maps · Rare Maps · Antique Maps · Vintage Globes and Charts · Old Atlases & Geographies252. New York City, New York (New York from Heights Near Brooklyn), 1828. 24.5 x 15.7”. (HC) This delightful aquatint engraving by John Hill, after a paintingby William Guy Wall, shows New York City from Brooklyn Heights across the East River, with the bucolic Brooklyn shoreline in the foreground. The buildingsand skyline in the distance are depicted in great detail, nestled between expanses of water and sky. In Picturing America, Gloria Gilda Deak, one of the foremosthistorians of American prints, describes this print as one of “the most beautiful views we have of New York City in the early nineteenth century.” The originalwatercolor is preserved in The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. This is the third state, with “J. Whatman 1828” watermark. Sheet size measures 26.5x 19.2”.William Guy Wall was a watercolorist and painter, who received artistic training in his native Ireland before immigrating to New York in 1818. Wall spent the next10 years in New York City, and became recognized for his views of the city and scenes along the Hudson River. A native of London, John Hill was an aquatintengraver of landscapes, and immigrated to the U.S. in 1816. Hill published views with Wall, J.M.W. Turner, and others and is known for the artistry and detail hebrought to his work. Original color on watermarked paper with light soiling. There is a tear that enters 5” into image at top left, along with three 1/2” holes inthe sky that have all been professionally repaired. There are a few tiny abrasions and a 1/2” crack in the water that has been closed on verso with archival material.Remargined at left with two small areas along the border that have been expertly replaced in facsimile. Nicely restored and visually attractive. (B)$2000-2500253. New York City, New York ([Lot of 2] View of the Great Fire in New-York, Decr. 16th. & 17th. 1835 [and] View of the Ruins After the Great Fire in New-York,Decr. 16th. & 17th. 1835), 1836. 23.8 x 16.2”. (HC) On December 16-17, 1835, the Great Fire of New York destroyed the New York Stock Exchange and most ofthe buildings on the southeast tip of Manhattan around Wall Street. At the time, the city was covered in snow and the East River was frozen solid with gale-forcewinds blowing from the northwest. When the fire began in a large warehouse at 25 Merchant Street (now called Beaver Street), firefighters had difficultly bothgetting water from the East River and preventing it from freezing in their hoses. This pair of dramatic views depict the Great Fire in action and the aftermath.The View of the Great Fire gives a view from “the top of the Bank of America” on the corner of Wall Street and William Street. The Fulton Insurance Company isshown just to the left of center; also the ruins of the New York American building. The Merchants’ Exchange is seen in the left center. The View of the Ruins Afterthe Great Fire is depicted from street level at Exchange Place. The ruin on the left is the Old Garden Street Church. These fine aquatint engravings were done byWilliam James Bennett, a British-born painter and engraver who immigrated to the United States in 1826, after a painting by Nicolino Caylo, an Italian artist whowitnessed the Great Fire and sketched numerous views of the catastrophe as it unfolded. Published by Lewis P. Clover in New York. Sheet sizes measure 27.6 x20.5” (View of the Great Fire) and 27.3 x 20.2” (View of the Ruins). Both have minor soiling and have been backed with heavy tissue. View of the Great Fire hasa 3” tear in the sky at left and minor cracks (on the building at left, at bottom center, and in the gray borders) that have all been professionally repaired. The whiteborder has been expertly remargined on three sides. View of the Ruins has three small holes in the sky, several long cracks, and a few tears in left gray border thathave all been professionally repaired. There are small chips in three corners far from image that have been expertly repaired, with a small amount of gray borderreplaced in facsimile. (B) $2750-3500254. New York City, New York (New York), SDUK Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 1840. 14.8 x 12”. (HC) Very finely engraved town plan centeredon Lower Manhattan and extending north to 42nd Street. It shows Governors or Nutten Island, and a small portion of Brooklyn, Williamsburg and Jersey City. InManhattan the newly built Harlem Railroad is shown in red. Bellevue Hospital and its associated Alms Houses, and the House of Refuge in Madison Square areshown. Gramercy Park is noted along Irving Place. There are several proposed piers in the Hudson River, of which only some were completed. A table locatesand names 40 important buildings. Along the bottom are large and finely rendered views of Broadway from the Park and another of City Hall. Original colorwith a few minor edge tears and chips confined to the blank margins and faint toning along the edges of the sheet. (B+)$275-350255. New York City, New York (Coast Chart No. 20 - New York Bay And Harbor), U.S. Coast Survey, 1866. 26.5 x 30.5”. (BW) This great coastal chart shows SandyHook, Raritan Bay, Staten Island, Brooklyn, Manhattan & the New Jersey shore along the Hudson River. Hundreds of depth soundings are depicted in the bay andinto the Hudson and East Rivers. The chart includes detailed sailing directions & navigational notes on channels, lighthouses, buoys & beacons. Issued foldingwith a number of fold separations resulting in minor loss, most of which have been repaired on verso with archival material. Light toning along the folds. (C+)$180-220256. New York City, New York (Showing the High and Low Water Mark and the Original City Grants of Lands Under Water Made to Various Parties from 1686 to1873…), U.S. Coast Survey, Washington D.C., 1873. 23 x 34”. (BW) Interesting map of Lower Manhattan showing the early land grants that were originallyunder water and reclaimed by the city for the rapidly evolving shipping industry. Numerous docks and slips are noted as well as important buildings. Drawn basedupon U.S. Coast Surveys as well as surveys made by the city’s Department of Docks. Surveyed by Gen. Charles K. Graham, Engineer in Chief of the port of NewYork. Issued folding with light toning along the folds and numerous fold separations, some of which are closed on verso with archival material, with a coupleof tiny areas of loss. (C+) $100-130257. New York City, New York (View of New York and Vicinity Showing Good Automobile Roads), Nostrand, Philadelphia, ca. 1925. 28.5 x 19”. (PC) This is abrightly colored bird’s-eye view of greater New York City, from Staten Island to White Plains, and with portions of New Jersey and Long Island. Numerous buildings,roads, landmarks, railroads and ferry lines are shown. The proposed George Washington Bridge is illustrated, which helps date the map, as the bridge wasconstructed between 1927 and 1931. Folds into red self-wrappers (4.3 x 7.3”). There is a 2.75” tear at bottom and a 1” tear in the Hudson River that have beenrepaired on verso with archival tape along with a few short fold separations. (B) $130-160258. Long Island, New York ([Lot of 11] Topography State of New York), U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), Washington D.C., 1903-05. 13.5 x 19.5”. (PC) This lot of11 topographic quadrangle maps from the USGS cover Long Island, NY. Produced under the direction of Charles Walcott, the maps show detail of the coastline,cities, roads and railroads with a scale of 1 mile per inch.A. Babylon QuadrangleB. Hempstead QuadrangleC. (Suffolk County) Shelter Island QuadrangleD. (Suffolk County) Gardiners Island QuadrangleE. (Suffolk County) Fire Island QuadrangleF. (Suffolk County) Easthampton QuadrangleG. (Suffolk County) Moriches QuadrangleH. (Suffolk County) Montauk QuadrangleI. (Suffolk County) Riverhead QuadrangleJ. (Suffolk County) Sag Harbor QuadrangleK. (Suffolk County) Setauket QuadrangleThere is some light toning and soiling primarily in the blank margins. The Moriches map has a 3” fold separation that is outside of the image area. The Montaukmap has a horizontal crease across the center and a short edge tear. (B+) $200-250259. Erie Canal, New York (Survey for a Ship Canal to Connect the Lakes Erie & Ontario…), U.S. Corps of Engineers, Washington D.C., 1835. 48.5 x 28”. (BW)This detailed strip map shows a proposed water route between Lake Ontario and Lake Erie in upstate New York, designed to avoid Niagara Falls. The route beginsat Lake Ontario, just north of Lockport, with the Eighteen Mile Creek, so named because of its distance from Niagara River, not its length. After passing throughLockport, the waterway connects with the Erie Canal, Tonawanda (Tonnawanta) Creek, and the Niagara River before flowing into Lake Erie. The Erie Canal,