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Maps, Travel & Sporting Books Including The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection
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A 1788 Survey Map of lands in the Out Ward
Estate / Collection: Collection of a New York Surveyor
BANCKER, EVERT and GERARD
A 1788 Survey Map of lands in the Out Ward, with an early copy. Comprising two manuscript maps, both ink on paper with color. The first map is in the hand of Evert Bancker and is a 1788 copy of a survey made by his brother Gerard in 1773 and bearing the 1834 ownership inscription of City Surveyor Edwin Smith. 28 x 21 inches (73 x 54 cm). The second map is a copy of the first, likely made by Smith about 1834 but without his usual notation. 32 1/2 x 25 inches (83 x 64 cm). The full title is taken from the second map: "A Map of Lands belonging to the Estate of the Late Sir Peter Warren lying at Greenwich in the Out Ward of the City of New York/Surveyed in August 1773 by G. Bancker City Surveyor." Below the title in brackets in both maps is "Copyed April 1 1788/by Evert Bancker Jun. C.S.", the first of these in Bancker's hand, the second an early copy. Both maps are backed. The first map with significant losses around the upper extremity with loss of text and border, similar but lesser losses to the lower border with loss of image, tears and stains, later markings within the image; the second map with a portion excised at foot costing some border, chips and tears along edges, dust soiling.
An original Evert Bancker survey of lands in the rural Out Ward, known as Greenwich, near today's 8th Avenue and 21st Street. The area shown was the northern extent of the nearly 300 acres amassed by the British Admiral Sir Peter Warren (1703-1752), husband of Susannah DeLancey, whose family owned a similarly large estate nearby. Susannah died in 1771, just before the original 1773 survey of these lands by Gerard Bancker. Peter Warren's three daughter's inherited the land and rural roads were named for their husbands: The Earl of Abingdon (here Abbington), Charles Fitzroy, later Baron Southampton, and Lt. Col. William Skinner. Abingdon Road, also known as "Love Lane," was a popular carriage route for courting couples. In the earlier map here, Evert Bancker Jr. (1734-1815) carefully copies the 1773 survey of his brother Gerard Bancker (1740-1799) about 15 years later in 1788. This map also bears the inscription of surveyor Edwin Smith, dated 1834, noting that he was presented the map by his "particular friend John Rogers Esq." Rogers is not named on the first map, but is listed as a property holder on a copy of a 1795 map copied by Smith.
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Estate / Collection: Collection of a New York Surveyor
BANCKER, EVERT and GERARD
A 1788 Survey Map of lands in the Out Ward, with an early copy. Comprising two manuscript maps, both ink on paper with color. The first map is in the hand of Evert Bancker and is a 1788 copy of a survey made by his brother Gerard in 1773 and bearing the 1834 ownership inscription of City Surveyor Edwin Smith. 28 x 21 inches (73 x 54 cm). The second map is a copy of the first, likely made by Smith about 1834 but without his usual notation. 32 1/2 x 25 inches (83 x 64 cm). The full title is taken from the second map: "A Map of Lands belonging to the Estate of the Late Sir Peter Warren lying at Greenwich in the Out Ward of the City of New York/Surveyed in August 1773 by G. Bancker City Surveyor." Below the title in brackets in both maps is "Copyed April 1 1788/by Evert Bancker Jun. C.S.", the first of these in Bancker's hand, the second an early copy. Both maps are backed. The first map with significant losses around the upper extremity with loss of text and border, similar but lesser losses to the lower border with loss of image, tears and stains, later markings within the image; the second map with a portion excised at foot costing some border, chips and tears along edges, dust soiling.
An original Evert Bancker survey of lands in the rural Out Ward, known as Greenwich, near today's 8th Avenue and 21st Street. The area shown was the northern extent of the nearly 300 acres amassed by the British Admiral Sir Peter Warren (1703-1752), husband of Susannah DeLancey, whose family owned a similarly large estate nearby. Susannah died in 1771, just before the original 1773 survey of these lands by Gerard Bancker. Peter Warren's three daughter's inherited the land and rural roads were named for their husbands: The Earl of Abingdon (here Abbington), Charles Fitzroy, later Baron Southampton, and Lt. Col. William Skinner. Abingdon Road, also known as "Love Lane," was a popular carriage route for courting couples. In the earlier map here, Evert Bancker Jr. (1734-1815) carefully copies the 1773 survey of his brother Gerard Bancker (1740-1799) about 15 years later in 1788. This map also bears the inscription of surveyor Edwin Smith, dated 1834, noting that he was presented the map by his "particular friend John Rogers Esq." Rogers is not named on the first map, but is listed as a property holder on a copy of a 1795 map copied by Smith.
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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