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Complete Record for Item NS3 M36.1.3A (.1)

Core Fields

Title:Plan of the City of New York
Item Type:Maps
Date:1776
Call Number NS3 M36.1.3B (.2-4)
Call Number NS3 M36.1.3A (.1)

Creator Information (Person)

creator: Ratzer, Bernard

Creator Information (Organization)

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Notes

Added_person: Faden, William
General_note: Handwritten note in ink on the cloth backing of copy 2: " Ratzer 1767"
Added_person: Kitchin, Thomas
General_note: There are handwritten notes, verso, which are not borne out by the citation in Stokes: "Date depicted 1766-67. Advertised for sale N.Y. Newspapers 1769-70. Copy 2 probably 1st issue before published improvement of Jeffreys [sic] & Faden date Jun 12 1776. Stokes I p. 342. Note presentation inscription by John Pintard under dedication." Nevertheless, copies 1 and 2 seem identical.
Extent: 1 printed map
Added_date: 1790
Dimensions: 59 x 90 cm.
Medium: black ink, with pencil additions, on paper backed with paper backed with cloth
Added_corpname: Jefferys & Faden
Added_person: Jefferys, Thomas
General_note: The map is dedicated "To his excellency Sir Henry Moore, Bart. . .most Humbly Inscribed by His Excellency's most obedient Servant."

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New York (N.Y.)

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