Description
A variety of New York publishers issued this map as a facsimile in apparently identical format in the later 19th Century with credit lines as follows:
Charles Magnus/ John Slater: Chs. Magnus Lith. Est. Facsimile of an original map made ~ 1728. Reprinted by John Slater Bookseller, no. 204 Chatham Square New York (bears date 1728 center top margin).
Joseph Laing: Joseph Laing, Lith 24 Fulton St. N.Y. Facsimile of an original map made ~ 1728. Reprinted by Joseph Laing Litho. No. 25 Fulton Street, New York
Henry Dunreath Tyler: Reproduced by Henry Dunreath Tyler, 46 Wall St. N.Y. Facsimile of an original map made ~ 1728.
There are only three known copies of the original 1731 map, one of which is in the Phelps Stokes Collection of the New York Public Library. According to the NYPL website, “Of the plans in the Phelps Stokes collection, the most important are the first and fourth issues of the Bonner maps of Boston issued in 1722 and 1743, and the best of three known impressions of the Bradford map or Lyne Survey of New York, depicting the city in 1730.”
The dedication, on the original map, also on the facsimile is as follows:
“To his excellency John Montgomerie, Esq. Capt. Genl. & Gov. in Chief of his Majestis provinces of New York New Jersey this plan of the city of New York is humbly dedic’d by Your Excellancy’s obet & most humble servt, Wm. Bradford.”
Condition: Generally very good with the usual overall light toning and wear.
