Sale 2496 - Maps & Atlases, Natural History & Color Plate Books, December 13, 2018

149 149 c   (NEW YORK CITY.) Montanus, Arnoldus. Novum Amsterodamum. Hand-colored engraved view on a folio leaf of German text. 5x6 1 / 2 inches image size, 12 1 / 4 x7 3 / 4 inches sheet size; faint stain and minor edge chips. Amsterdam, 1671 [300/500] 150 c   (NEW YORK CITY.) Sibeth, Otto; draughtsman. Map of the Central Park. Large lithographed map on two sheets joined. 19x72 inches; originally folding now flat and mounted to a sheet of foam-core board, light discoloration at sheet edges and at central joint. New York: Department of Public Parks, circa 1873 [1,500/2,500] The scale of this unusually large map of Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux’s Manhattan masterpiece of landscape architecture allows the viewer to examine explicit detail of the park. The map is divided into two halves “The South” and “The North”, labeled and overprinted in red; an inconspicuous keyed grid system also appears in red. Using a separate index prepared by landscape architect Robert Demcker, the position of over 640 species and varieties of trees and shrubs can be located throughout the park referencing this grid (index not present). The large map was as much of a tool for early park maintenance as it is a spectacular article for today’s collector. The plan is scarce, with only four institutional copies located. 151 c   (NEW YORK CITY.) U.S. Coast Survey. Bay and Harbor of New York. Large engraved folding chart of New York Harbor on two sheets (No’s. 22 and 23). 28x41 inches each sheet size, wide margins; light browning and some closed separations along fold lines. Washington, D.C., 1874 [200/300] 150