Ending Mar 7, 2024 11:13 EST
Maps, Travel & Sporting Books Including The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection
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Holmes' 1887 property map of land in Washington Heights
Estate / Collection: Collection of a New York Surveyor
[MAP - NEW YORK CITY]
HOLMES, J. B. and CHARLES J. HUNT. Map of Property in Harlem Formerly Belonging to the Bowers, Moore, Smedes, Benson, Bussing and Other Estates. Showing the Topography, Old Roads, Lanes &c. as they existed 100 Years Ago and the Present. [New York]: Charles J. Hunt, 1887. Lithographed map, hand colored, backed with linen, silk border. 27 x 34 3/4 inches (69.75 x 88.5 cm). Lightly toned, marginal tears and a few small losses not effecting the printed area, faint creasing, losses to silk border, damp stain along bottom edge, remnants of pasted paper label, small hole with inset metal eye for hanging.
A separately published cadastral map of Washington Heights, showing the area from 173rd to 185th streets. The map juxtaposes the city as is was in 1887, showing the modern streets and a few areas segmented into smaller lots for development, with the farmland of the 1780's, including old farm property lines, topographic details, waterways, roads and buildings, such as the Revolutionary War era Fort Washington. The text below the map contains information about the ownership history of ten large plots of farmland that make up the area. Rare - we locate only two copies of the map on worldcat (NYPL, University of Wisconsin).
Sold for $416
Estimated at $100 - $150
Includes Buyer's Premium
Estate / Collection: Collection of a New York Surveyor
[MAP - NEW YORK CITY]
HOLMES, J. B. and CHARLES J. HUNT. Map of Property in Harlem Formerly Belonging to the Bowers, Moore, Smedes, Benson, Bussing and Other Estates. Showing the Topography, Old Roads, Lanes &c. as they existed 100 Years Ago and the Present. [New York]: Charles J. Hunt, 1887. Lithographed map, hand colored, backed with linen, silk border. 27 x 34 3/4 inches (69.75 x 88.5 cm). Lightly toned, marginal tears and a few small losses not effecting the printed area, faint creasing, losses to silk border, damp stain along bottom edge, remnants of pasted paper label, small hole with inset metal eye for hanging.
A separately published cadastral map of Washington Heights, showing the area from 173rd to 185th streets. The map juxtaposes the city as is was in 1887, showing the modern streets and a few areas segmented into smaller lots for development, with the farmland of the 1780's, including old farm property lines, topographic details, waterways, roads and buildings, such as the Revolutionary War era Fort Washington. The text below the map contains information about the ownership history of ten large plots of farmland that make up the area. Rare - we locate only two copies of the map on worldcat (NYPL, University of Wisconsin).
Auction: Maps, Travel & Sporting Books Including The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection, ending Mar 7, 2024
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Timed Auction of Maps, Travel & Sporting Books Including the Esmond Bradley Martin Collection
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Bidding Will Open on February 22 and Close on Thursday, March 7, 2024 beginning at 10am
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Consignments Are Currently Being Accepted for Future Auctions
NEW YORK, NY -- Doyle will hold a timed online auction of Maps, Travel & Sporting Books closing on Thursday, March 7, 2024 beginning at 10am. Explore the world through a fascinating range of offerings featuring maps, Americana, travel, sporting books, literary sets and the Esmond Bradley Martin Collection of Africana.
Esmond Bradley Martin
Esmond Bradley Martin (1941-2018) was educated as a geographer and philosopher. He and his wife Chryssee had an enduring fascination with Africa, and settled in Nairobi, Kenya, in the mid-1970s. He wrote extensively, oftentimes in conjunction with his wife, publishing works including Zanzibar. Tradition and Revolution, Hamish Hamilton, 1978; Cargoes of the east. The ports, trade, and culture of the Arabian Seas and western Indian Ocean, Elm Tree Press, 1978; and many other works on African history and conservation. In the late 1970s, he began extensive research into the illegal trade in elephant ivory and rhino horn, which included substantial stints incognito posing as a buyer of illicit wildlife products. For a while, he served as special envoy for rhino conservation for the United Nations.
For about thirty years, beginning in the mid-1960s, Esmond Bradley Martin assiduously collected books and manuscripts on Africa and its history, acquiring a phenomenal collection of letters by many of the major English explorers of the nineteenth century, as well as numerous rarities from earlier centuries. He was buying at a time when troves of such material surfaced frequently at English auctions. Doyle was privileged to offer the first selection from his collection in the November 7, 2023 auction. We are pleased to present this second offering of property from The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection.
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