Ending Mar 7, 2024 11:05 EST
Maps, Travel & Sporting Books Including The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection
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Asylum Street in the West Village
Estate / Collection: Collection of a New York Surveyor
[MAP - GREENWICH VILLAGE]
SMITH, W[ILLIA]M A. [?]. Map of Property Belonging to the Orphan Asylum Society in the 9th Ward of the City of New York. "New York 17th Oct 1872 / I certify this to be a true copy / of the map filed in the register's / office by no. 297 / Wm A [?] Smith / City Surveyor." Manuscript map on paper, hand colored, stencilled text, modern linen backing. 26 3/4 x 13 1/4 inches (68.5 x 33.75 cm). Staining, toning, dust soiling, closed cracks and tears, losses to corners, modern ink annotations to backing.
A survey map showing property lines between Bank Street and West 12th Street (which was called Troy Street until 1846), and between West 4th Street (Asylum Street until it was changed in 1834) and Greenwich Avenue. Factory street no longer exists, but would have been an extension of Waverly Place. The Orphan Asylum Society was the first private orphanage in New York City. It was founded in 1806 by a group of woman including Isabella Graham and Eliza Schyuler Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton's widow. At first it was located in in a small building on Raisin Street that housed only twenty children, but the orphanage soon outgrew the building and moved to the location shown in this map. In 1807, they began construction on a three-story building on Bank street that would house two hundred children. The Society's constitution required that "the Orphans shall be educated, fed and clothed, at the expense of the Society and at the Asylum. They must have religious instruction, moral example, and habits of industry inculcated in their minds." In 1835, presumably when the original survey (of which this map is a true copy) was drawn, the land was sold, and the Orphan Asylum Society moved uptown to a newer, bigger home on 73rd Street and Riverside Drive.
Sold for $160
Estimated at $100 - $200
Includes Buyer's Premium
Estate / Collection: Collection of a New York Surveyor
[MAP - GREENWICH VILLAGE]
SMITH, W[ILLIA]M A. [?]. Map of Property Belonging to the Orphan Asylum Society in the 9th Ward of the City of New York. "New York 17th Oct 1872 / I certify this to be a true copy / of the map filed in the register's / office by no. 297 / Wm A [?] Smith / City Surveyor." Manuscript map on paper, hand colored, stencilled text, modern linen backing. 26 3/4 x 13 1/4 inches (68.5 x 33.75 cm). Staining, toning, dust soiling, closed cracks and tears, losses to corners, modern ink annotations to backing.
A survey map showing property lines between Bank Street and West 12th Street (which was called Troy Street until 1846), and between West 4th Street (Asylum Street until it was changed in 1834) and Greenwich Avenue. Factory street no longer exists, but would have been an extension of Waverly Place. The Orphan Asylum Society was the first private orphanage in New York City. It was founded in 1806 by a group of woman including Isabella Graham and Eliza Schyuler Hamilton, Alexander Hamilton's widow. At first it was located in in a small building on Raisin Street that housed only twenty children, but the orphanage soon outgrew the building and moved to the location shown in this map. In 1807, they began construction on a three-story building on Bank street that would house two hundred children. The Society's constitution required that "the Orphans shall be educated, fed and clothed, at the expense of the Society and at the Asylum. They must have religious instruction, moral example, and habits of industry inculcated in their minds." In 1835, presumably when the original survey (of which this map is a true copy) was drawn, the land was sold, and the Orphan Asylum Society moved uptown to a newer, bigger home on 73rd Street and Riverside Drive.
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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