Plan of the city of New York in North America : surveyed in the years 1766 & 1767.

Treasures of the Patricia D. Klingenstein Library

1770

1 map on 3 assembled sheets : ill. ; 99 x 87 cm., 122 x 91 overall

The Ratzer map of New York City. First state, 1770. Covers part of modern New York City: Manhattan below the later 60th Street and Brooklyn north of the later 30th Street and west of the later Union Avenue; also a small part of modern Queens and of Jersey City, New Jersey. Shows built up and cultivated areas, streets and rural roads, some buildings, piers. Also shows streams, ponds and wetlands. Shows relief by hachures. Shows depths by soundings. Dedication at upper left: "To His Excellency Sir Henry Moore, Bart. Captain General and Governour in Chief, in and over His Majesty’s Province of New York and the territories depending thereon in America Chancellor and Vice Admiral of the same. This plan, of the City of New York and its environs, survey’d and laid down: is most humbly dedicated by his Excellency’s most obdet. humble servant, B. Ratzer Lieut. in his Majestys 60th. or Royal American Regt." Includes large illustration of the harbor and city; based on a work by Thomas Davies.

Maps - M009211.1 (2nd copy)
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