Ending Mar 7, 2024 11:14 EST
Maps, Travel & Sporting Books Including The Esmond Bradley Martin Collection
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A highly detailed map of the newly designed Out Ward
Estate / Collection: Collection of a New York Surveyor
[OUT WARD]
A highly detailed map of the newly designed Out Ward. A finely detailed ink map in ink of irregular shape on sheets of joined paper, circa 1790s, not titled or signed. The map is laid down with differing paper extending the image to the border. The full sheet 21 x 39 inches (54 x 100 cm). The map is highly worn with losses, some later markings within the image mostly updating the street names shortly thereafter in about 1805 or so, in need of stabilization and sold with all faults.
A highly detailed plan of the neighborhood near today's Nolita. The plan shows Broad Way to the West, Bowery (here "Road to Boston") to the East, Bayard Street to the South, and Prince Street to the North. The map has the irregular boundaries of the neighborhood: Rhynders Street, the westernmost street to the south (left side of map) appears on Ratzer's 1766 survey with no streets laid out above it, just trees the large Fresh Water "Collect" pond on Bayard's Farm. Rhynders Street was later incorporated into Centre Street. The incomplete section of Broad Way at upper left would be completed in this period. Rhynders Street is just above Mary Street (a street dated to 1797) later known as Orange Street and today's Baxter Street. While Mulberry and Mott Streets had appeared on maps as early as the 1750s, in this section at this time they were known as Catharine Street and Winne Street. Viewers today will recognize the triangular area here in between William (now Broome) and Oliver (now Spring) Streets, still present, and the road above here labeled as Pitt Street, later Elm Street, was renamed Lafayette Street in 1905. A fascinating early map from the Mangin-Goerck period, when the streets near the Collect Pond were first imagined.
Sold for $832
Estimated at $400 - $600
Includes Buyer's Premium
Estate / Collection: Collection of a New York Surveyor
[OUT WARD]
A highly detailed map of the newly designed Out Ward. A finely detailed ink map in ink of irregular shape on sheets of joined paper, circa 1790s, not titled or signed. The map is laid down with differing paper extending the image to the border. The full sheet 21 x 39 inches (54 x 100 cm). The map is highly worn with losses, some later markings within the image mostly updating the street names shortly thereafter in about 1805 or so, in need of stabilization and sold with all faults.
A highly detailed plan of the neighborhood near today's Nolita. The plan shows Broad Way to the West, Bowery (here "Road to Boston") to the East, Bayard Street to the South, and Prince Street to the North. The map has the irregular boundaries of the neighborhood: Rhynders Street, the westernmost street to the south (left side of map) appears on Ratzer's 1766 survey with no streets laid out above it, just trees the large Fresh Water "Collect" pond on Bayard's Farm. Rhynders Street was later incorporated into Centre Street. The incomplete section of Broad Way at upper left would be completed in this period. Rhynders Street is just above Mary Street (a street dated to 1797) later known as Orange Street and today's Baxter Street. While Mulberry and Mott Streets had appeared on maps as early as the 1750s, in this section at this time they were known as Catharine Street and Winne Street. Viewers today will recognize the triangular area here in between William (now Broome) and Oliver (now Spring) Streets, still present, and the road above here labeled as Pitt Street, later Elm Street, was renamed Lafayette Street in 1905. A fascinating early map from the Mangin-Goerck period, when the streets near the Collect Pond were first imagined.
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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