[NEW YORK]
DES BARRES, JOSEPH. F. WALLET. A Chart Of New York Harbour with the Soundings Views of Land Marks and Nautical directions for the use of Pilotage... [London:] Des Barres, May 19, 1779. 33 x 23 1/2 inches, with the printed sailing instructions affixed to the right margin, for a total width of 35 1/2 inches (map 81 x 60.5 cm); hand-colored copper plate engraving. 4 1/2 inch long restored loss to the lower margin extending to the neatline, small loss to the lower margin of the sailing directions, small infilled facsimile portion at head of central fold of map. Some minor toning, but overall attractive. Framed, sold not subject to return.
It is unusual to find the printed sailing directions affixed to the map; these were presumably extracted from the text for the plate in Des Barres The Atlantic Neptune. It is among the most attractive and desirable of the New York maps and views in that work. Augustyn and Cohen, Manhattan in Maps, pp. 66-69.