Heading: (New York)
Author: Andrews, William Loring
Title: James Lyne's Survey Or, as It is More Commonly Known the Bradford Map: a Plan of the City of New York at the Time of the Granting of the Montgomery Charter in 1731.
Place Published: New York
Publisher:Dodd, Mead & Company
Date Published: 1900
Description:

38 pp. Pages uncut. With 3 fold-out maps. (8vo) gilt-decorated blue cloth. One of 170 copies on Holland paper from a complete edition of 202 copies.

With the illustrated bookplate of author, publisher, and bibliophile A. Edward Newton. Newton's bookplate references his home named Oak Knoll, and depicts an image of the London Temple Bar. The publisher Oak Knoll Books is named after Newton's home. The volume features facsimiles of the highly important seminal 18th Century British Bradford Map or Lyne Survey of New York City.

At the time of his death, it was estimated that A. Edward Newton had approximately 10,000 books in his collection, focusing on English and American literary works, the major part of which were auctioned by Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York in April, May, and October 1941. Highlights of the sale included the autographed manuscripts of Thomas Hardy's novel Far From the Madding Crowd and Charles Lamb's essay Dream Children. However, the fall in rare book prices steadily through the Great Depression meant that many sold lots brought only a fraction of prices they would have realized at the time of the Jerome Kern sale in 1929. The three volume Newton sale catalogue remains a useful reference for literature collectors.

Mild toning to endpapers; else fine, or nearly so.