Ending Mar 7, 2024 11:20 EST
Maps, Travel & Sporting Books Including The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection
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A large map with a long descriptive text after Maerschalk
Estate / Collection: Collection of a New York Surveyor
[MAERSCHALK, FRANCIS, after]
An 1830 copy of an interesting 1763 Francis Maerschalk survey of lands bordering the Bayard Farm, with the beginnings of street layouts and a long explanatory text. Manuscript in ink and colors on joined sheets of paper. The map a true copy by City Surveyor George Smith dated 4 July 1830 copying a Francis Maerschalk survey of October 1st 1763. A note on the side reports the original of the map in the possession of Henry Barclay of Long Island. The map is backed. 29 1/2 x 36 inches (75 x 92 cm). Extensive losses to the left side affecting the text and border, stains, tears, other losses including within Smith's signature area, later markings within the image.
An interesting and large copy of an early survey of lands on Manhattan's west side in 1763, just preceding Bernard Ratzer's 1766 survey. On the lower portion of the survey is shown the northern reaches of King's Farm, this being the the northernmost extent of roads within Maerschalk's 1755 printed survey (engraved by G. Duyckinck). At the southeast the outline of the Fresh Water pond is delineated and just south of that a Powder House is indicated. Most parcels delineated by separate colors are not assigned but others are two are assigned to familiar names Abraham De Peyster and John Chambers and the lands to the west and north of this area is marked as owned by Nicholas Bayard. A faint grid of planned streets is gently drawn over the lands with very small indications of names to come: Church Street, Worth, and Leonard. Maerschalk's text describes the survey in detail although much is lost. A fascinating glimpse into this changing area that became today's Tribeca.
Sold for $224
Estimated at $200 - $300
Includes Buyer's Premium
Estate / Collection: Collection of a New York Surveyor
[MAERSCHALK, FRANCIS, after]
An 1830 copy of an interesting 1763 Francis Maerschalk survey of lands bordering the Bayard Farm, with the beginnings of street layouts and a long explanatory text. Manuscript in ink and colors on joined sheets of paper. The map a true copy by City Surveyor George Smith dated 4 July 1830 copying a Francis Maerschalk survey of October 1st 1763. A note on the side reports the original of the map in the possession of Henry Barclay of Long Island. The map is backed. 29 1/2 x 36 inches (75 x 92 cm). Extensive losses to the left side affecting the text and border, stains, tears, other losses including within Smith's signature area, later markings within the image.
An interesting and large copy of an early survey of lands on Manhattan's west side in 1763, just preceding Bernard Ratzer's 1766 survey. On the lower portion of the survey is shown the northern reaches of King's Farm, this being the the northernmost extent of roads within Maerschalk's 1755 printed survey (engraved by G. Duyckinck). At the southeast the outline of the Fresh Water pond is delineated and just south of that a Powder House is indicated. Most parcels delineated by separate colors are not assigned but others are two are assigned to familiar names Abraham De Peyster and John Chambers and the lands to the west and north of this area is marked as owned by Nicholas Bayard. A faint grid of planned streets is gently drawn over the lands with very small indications of names to come: Church Street, Worth, and Leonard. Maerschalk's text describes the survey in detail although much is lost. A fascinating glimpse into this changing area that became today's Tribeca.
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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