Map Of The City Of New York, North Of 55Th Street. Showing On The "West Side" The Streets, Roads, Avenues And Public Places ,,, Ewen, Hamilton Maps

55.6x168 cm. Folding map, backed with linen, of upper Manhattan and the southern portion of the Bronx. Original cloth binding with title gilt on front, well worn and chipping at edges and corners. Split, partially mended, along part of the horizontal center fold with small loss at one fold junction in the Bronx. Overall, a good to very good example of an extremely scarce map of which this is one of three known examples. One copy was offered by a map dealer around 2020. The other is the New York Public Library copy which is in fair to poor condition. Published by Hamilton Towle and printed by the American Photo-Lithography Company of New York, this is among the earliest maps which demonstrated projected parks in northern Manhattan including Riverside Park, Morningside Park and St. Nicholas Park. These parks were conceived by Andrew Haswell Green who was city comptroller and a leader of the Central Park Commission. Haskell 1208. Not in Stokes (Iconography).