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Authentic first edition/first printing of Samuel A. Mitchell Jr’s “Plan of New York” with plate number inside the upper right frame, indicating the rare first state of this map. The publishing history of Mitchell Jr’s initial project is quite informative. Apparently, he published the first edition for only a couple of months before altering the plates by removing the plate numbers from within the map frames and placing them outside the frames to basically make them page numbers. Because of the brief publishing duration and passage of 163 years, first printings of his first atlas are now quite rare, as are the maps contained therein. As with other maps from this first state, the printing is much more pronounced, with deeper shades and finer images. The map shows southern Manhattan below 45th Street along with parts of Brooklyn, Williamsburg, Hoboken, Greenpoint and Jersey City. The map offers great detail including individual streets, references to parks, important buildings, piers and ferries. Hand colored at the time of publication in vivid watercolor and surrounded by the early decorative border that has finer detail than later editions of the map. Very light and thin water stain at extreme right edge of paper. Few minor spots in the margin. A lovely specimen of a highly collectible, rare map. 10.75 x 13
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Rare 1st state of Plan of New York, Mitchell 1860
$425.00
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