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In four sections, each measuring approx. 27" x 25" size, plus margins, often generous, esp. to the outer sides of the maps; making them about 26" x 30 ½" or so; original hand coloring; accomplished by this well-known map maker before the formation of Nassau County, so that area of Long Island is also shown, before the historic event - Oyster Bay and Cold Spring Harbor on the northeast and Garden City, Seaford & Farmingdale in the southeast portion; with detailed inset maps of various areas which were being promoted in real estate development schemes and which state the acreages & plot sizes that are available: Sheepshead Bay and outlining the Jockey Club facilities; inset of Coney Island; Cedarhurst; Bath Beach; Long Island City, Morris Park, Hollis, Richmond Hill; Seacliff; the Long Island Camp Meeting Association inset, in Merrick; a tiny inset for Lloyd's Neck and another for Rockaway Beach Oceanus P.O.; these maps with business inset advertisements for: John Sutter Marble and Granite Works Middle Village, R.H. Allen Agricultural Implements NYC, Earl A. Gillespie Lumber Yard Woodhaven and Ozone Park (with illustrations of buildings); St. Raphael's Church Blissville (with illustration); James F. Walsh successor to James Hall Monumental Granite Works Cypress Hills L.I. (with monument illustr.); Hurd, Waite & Co., Brooklyn's Reliable Dry Goods Establishment; Leonard Ruoff Furnishing Undertaker & Florist, Brooklyn; H. Bade Boots Shoes & Rubbers East N.Y.; Wm. E. Kay Steam Granite & Marble Works South Brooklyn; M.E. Kelly Marble and Granite Works, Calvary Cemetery L.I.; D. Jewell & Son, Dealers in Flour, Grain...(with illustr. of building) East N.Y.; W.F. Moore Furnishing Undertaker Livery and Boarding Stable East N.Y.; included on one section is a useful place index, giving a location finder and includes post offices, location of telegraph and telephone services in the places listed; the "Brooklyn City reference Table" on the same sheet is a business directory with dozens of businesses and their locations listed - we recognize Brooklyn Mill & Lumber and Budweiser Brewing Co.; the maps also showing a portion of the Lower East Side of Manhattan and landowners in the less densely settled areas; wards in the city of Brooklyn, in Long Island City, and on lower east side of Manhattan; an OCLC search indicates 3 holdings, however, these are all for a one-sheet modern reprint of this title; a bit of darkening to paper, as natural for the Beers maps; a little edgewear and chipping, to margins only; one closed marginal tear; overall, in very good condition and with a wealth of cartographic, business, cultural and real estate development history information.
Very Large 4-Section Hand-Colored ‘Map of Kings and Queens Counties New York from Actual Surveys Published By J.B. Beers & Co.’
(Map of Kings and Queens Counties)
New York: J.B. Beers & Co., 1886.
Price: $2,500.00
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List of Maps collated complete; all are hand colored; 11 double page maps, approximately 21" x 25" size opened; Locations include all of the town and surrounds of Riverhead, Long Island, listing businesses, fire houses, water facilities, public utilities, Suffolk County Agricultural Society Fair Grounds with Race Track, Peconic River and all the businesses at the riverside in this time: Tower Roller Mill, C. Hallet's Sons Flour Mill & Electric Light Plant, Auxiliary Plant, Carriage Repository, Lumber & Construction businesses, boat & carpenter shops, American Ice Company, Frank H. Hill & Bro. Monument Works, county buildings-court house complex & jail, Long Island House, Banks, Public Library, tailor, jewelry, drug, tobacco & cigarette retailers, horse boarding & livery stables, S. Terry Hudson Agricultural Implement Works, Riverhead Coal Co., Shinnecock Distributing Co., Beer Agents & Soda Water Bottlers, railroads- train & transportation lines; Wm. Sweezy's Ice Ho., Corwin & Vail Lumber, cemeteries, schools, residences, public works, boarding houses-ie. Benjamin House, E. Griswold & Co., Cigar Factory & Wholesale Candy Dealers, F. C. Lane's Ice House, and much more; bound in the original paper wraps, covers soiled and with old fold line; with slight marginal soiling and darkening, a little bit of edgewear to a few; a bit of bowing from old fold; maps are in very good plus condition overall and clean, colors bright, printed on very good paper with good margins.
Riverhead Suffolk County New York Atlas
(Riverhead)
New York: Sanborn Map Company, 1909.
Price: $1,800.00
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Collection includes: a pencil sketch titled Revolution Cottage Orient, approx. 6" x 6" (on 6" x 9" sheet) and on another fold of the same sheet, 6" x 9" are three more sketches - another Orient home on the shoreline, a small sailboat and an interior view with lamp - paper darkened, old burn-spot at edge of 'lamp' sketch, edge-chipped a bit, sketches good and with good detail; with another sketch of a stylized butterfly corner-ornament, perhaps for an illustration - done in colored crayons on a 5" x 7 3/4" sheet, the art about 3" x 3" - on the back of this is a tracing of the butterfly in pencil and above that a sketch of a sailing boat pictured in a seashell-cornered frame - sailing vessels being one of Davis' favorite subjects - this sheet with a couple of closed tears and darkened a bit, artwork good; (these are not signed); (with) a (32) page double-space typed manuscript with corrections in Davis' hand for a book by him "Tentative Title: From Many Ports" - that surveys the history of ships and commerce, especially American sailing boats, with corrections in his hand throughout. In good condition, light wear, with old paper-clip rustmarks at top of sheets and with an index card written in his hand stating that "...Book idea specimen Mss. & 7 sheets of drawings sent Little, Brown Apr 1/35 Ret." (drawings not part of this ms.) with the first class mailing envelope from Little Brown that held the ms. papers - Davis "...had a great enthusiasm for sailing vessels and made a careful study of their structures and the details of their sails and riggings..." (quote from a Oysterponds Hist. Soc. exhibit notice of his works - with a copy of this notice here as well) - as far as we can determine, this book was not published; (with) a copy of the French arts review magazine 'Revue Du Vrai Et Du Beau' of Paris, issue of December 10, 1924 with a typed translation of an article about Davis, with corrections in his hand, that his found within a larger piece on "The Exhibition at Newport" by Count Chabrier and the article illustrates 2 paintings by W.S.D. - the translation is 2 typed pages, both magazine & trans. in good condition; (with) Art Exhibition catalogues in every one of which are found one or more works by William Steeple Davis, among artistic endeavors of many other prominent artists of the time: 1914 Second Annual art Exhibition Benefit Eastern Long Island Hospital Greenport L.I. ([4] sides, W. Cole Brigham, Sarah L. Craven, Whitney M. Hubbard, Edith & Henry Prellwitz, Julia M. Wickham, Gladys & Irving Wiles, more) some chipping and soil, good; 1926 Montclair At Museum ([4] sides, single artist exhibit for Davis, with a large list of works, oil, watercolor, etching, block prints); 1926 Brooklyn Society of Artists Tenth Annual Exhibition ([8] pages, at Pratt Institute Brooklyn, Edna Thurber, W.E. Spader, Sara Hess, Leon Davo, Will J. Quinlan, Louise Mansfield, Katharine Lovell, Isabel Moore Kimball, with list of Society members); 1927 Canadian National Exhibition Fine, Graphic & Applied Arts & Salon of Photography ([140] pages, black and white illustrated throughout, hundreds of artists & works listed, Anna Airy, Reginald Brundrit, Gordon Coutts, Lady Scott Young, Louis Jourdan, F.S. Coburn, Amy C. Despard, Fred Haines, Charles Jefferys, Marion Long, Charles Comfort, W. Maltman, Tod Lendenmouth, Stanley Turner, Tankai Suzuki, J. Sudek, Edward Mudge, Laboratorio di Resinotipia, Frank Drtikol, an excellent, detailed catalog); 1928 Brooklyn Soc. of Artist at Pratt, ([6] panels, Eugene F. Cole, Sanilslav Rembski, Fred Cuming, Eugene Jones, Louis J. Urich, Frances Keffer, Alta West Salisbury, Bessie Eisenberg, Alexander Zeitlin, more); 1929 Eighth Annual Exhibition of Etchings Lithographs Block Prints The Art Alliance Philadelphia ([8] panels, Charles H. Woodbury, John Taylor Arms, Lee Sturges, Gordon Grant, Richard E. Bishop, Margaeret J. Patterson, Wuanita Smith, Frances H. Gearhart, Beatrice S. & William Auerbach-Levy, G. A. Mock, Marylka Modjeska, Frank W. Benson, more) 1940 Tercentenary Art Exhibition Peconic School ([4] panels, Virginia Beresford, Caroline M. Bell, T. Currie-Bell, Gladys & Irving Wiles, Julia Wickham, Willa Hagerman, Edith & Henry Prellwitz, more, with list of Patronesses); (and) a copy of the November 1916 Photo-Era The American Journal of Photography, (72) pages, which holds 8 black and white photo-images by W.S. Davis, as part of a featured article "The Possiblities of our Neighborhood" by him, (and articles & illustrations by others) - magazine with some wear and soiling to covers, rub- spot, in good condition; (and) 1957, 1958 and 1960 single-artist exhibitions of Davis' work, paintings, at the National Arts Club Gramercy Park, lists of oil paintings and watercolors, (4) panels each catalog; the above are all priced catalogs, with titles identified, the group with light wear, very good; (with) a Little, Brown & Co. illustrated 4-panel review and order form for the popular W.S. Davis book "Practical Amateur Photography"; (and) a (16) page child's school-book in which a young Davis translates line-by-line various French works, fairy tales and fables, all in his script hand, (paper wrap covers detached, in very good condition); William Steeple Davis (1884-1961) painter, educator, engraver, inventor, block printer, pictorial photographer, writer, graphic artist, resident of Orient, Long Island, (WWW in American Art 1999); a good group of material concerning this artist's life and work and especially interesting for the insight it offers into the many aspects of his creative work; also of interest to read of how this work, in many different artistic fields, was promoted and sold over a half-century, along with seeing how other artists joined in the effort to vigorously publicize and sell their works over the years; this group of special interest concerning Peconic Art School and Orient Long Island art history.
1900-1959 Group of Materials Illustrating the Creative Life of William Steeple Davis, Orient Long Island New York Fine Artist Including Original Sketches, a Typed Manuscript of a Nautical Book, Art & Photography Exhibition Catalogs & Articles.
(William Steeple Davis)
Orient, Long Island New York: Various, 1900.
Price: $750.00
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Collection includes 50 individual items, with some of these running to multiple pages; 1798 - 2 documents; 1800-1810 being 5 pieces; 1811-1820 having 13 items; 1821-1830 with 19 cases; 1838 with 1 and 1843 with 1 case; the Justices involved include Abraham Ditmars, William Mott, Oliver Denton, Richard Bedell, Cary Dunn Jr., William Furman, Amory Remson, James Hendrickson, Luke Covert and others; areas mentioned include Oyster Bay, Hempstead, North Hempstead, Jamaica, all within the old Queens County jurisdiction; for offenses including chicken- stealing, assault and battery on a woman, tenancy eviction, insolvency and debtors arrangements, tavern licensing, juror lists, various pleas and statements, dockets on cases; document sizes and paper quality varies, most written in very legible hands on good quality paper, several with the original wax seals still extant; about 1/2 dozen of the documents are partially printed and have the blindstamp of the State of NY and completed by hand; some wear, splitting along old fold lines; in generally good to very good condition and an interesting group of law and crime related documents from Long Island in the earliest part of the 19th century, with a variety of legal import.
1798 - 1843 Collection of Legal Documents Queens County Long Island New York State, Court of Common Pleas, Supreme Court and Special Sessions
(Manuscript Americana - Law)
New York: Not Published, 1798.
Price: $650.00
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64 pages; previous ownership name of Return Jonathan Meigs, Revolutionary War hero of the famed Sag Harbor Whaleboat raid on British shipping; "Return J. Meigs" on both front endpapers along with the date of march 5th 1819 and signature again on title page; on final text leaf, Meigs has paraphrased Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice, writing "Without the coloring of poetic license, music charms the soul, Praises it to honorable deeds, & lifts it up toward heaven, & seems a lease to lend us a taste of perfect Bliss. He who hates music, has a soul as dark as erebus: let no man trust him."; Colonel Return Jonathan Meigs (1740-1823) Revolutionary War soldier, Ohio pioneer, became agent for the U.S. government to the Cherokee Nation; Shaw & Shoemaker American Imprints second series 38676; bound in faded marbled paper covered boards, leather spine, worn and chipped, front board nearly detached; contents foxed & darkened; good condition and a great Sag Harbor and Long Island Revolutionary War item.
An Essay on Man, By Alexander Pope, Esq. To Which are Added, the Universal Prayer, and Other Valuable Pieces Selected from His Works.
Pope, Alexander
Poughkeepsie New York: Paraclete Potter, 1816.
Price: $500.00
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John Steinbeck Autograph on a Copy of The Suffolk County Whaling Museum of Sag Harbor, Long Island, N.Y.
(John Steinbeck)
Sag Harbor, New York:
Price: $450.00
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Large roll-up map of Long Island's Nassau County; no date but circa 1940s, with Motor Parkway route clearly delineated (Queens section noted as bicycle path, so probably after closure); property ownership for private as well as commercial, public properties, golf clubs, estates, corporate owners, more, an excellent property ownership, real estate development reference to the time; with original wooden end-holders attached, tie-cords; size noted on map as 64" x 103" but is slightly smaller; with index at bottom; laid down on linen; some wrinkling to surface at top, decreasing as map unrolls; couple small pencil notations; in very good condition and very good Long Island map history from the mid-twentieth century.
Circa 1940s Rollup Wall Map Hagstrom's Street, Road and Property Ownership Map of Nassau County, Long Island NY Map No. 2140A
(Nassau County)
New York & London: Hagstrom's,
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A Collection of C. 150 pieces of Busines & Financial Correspondence and records From Sag Harbor Businessman George Tindall 1865 -1901
(Sag Harbor)
Sag Harbor, New York:
Price: $450.00
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5 three-ring binders worth of materials from this Long Island industrial engineering firm; they had been located at several places on the Island, including Plainview, Bohemia, Riverhead and Syosset; evidently the company had much work with heating sensory equipment, including hand-drawn requests from subcontractors to supply various pieces of inventive technology to the Cowan firm for their clients; one binder on fiber optic sensing devices and uses with heating equipment and furnaces is including an interesting 1960 piece from the American Optical Company concerning Fiber Optics, their specifications and uses, relatively early for the practical application of this technology which had been invented much earlier, with references and diagrams, folding plans and blueprints and including the later Cowan application of the F.O. technology to their "Flame Scanner" equipment; another binder with about 25 8" x 10" professionally-done black and white photographs of Cowan equipment, mostly sensind devices and industrial heating monitoring equipment technology; (with) a binder with some hundreds of sheets of blueprints and materials regarding installation and arrangement of these devices, dating from the 1960s, gas & oil combination firing, burner interlocks, flame interlocks, automatic burner sequence air atomizer power arcs Riley type OD-2 Boilers standard folding plans, more: with a most interesting 5-page "Partial List of Installations in the United States" in about 37 states listed, with the clients and locations, and "Foreign Installations" in Mexico, Canada, Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia, Italy more; (with) a binder pubicizing a bit later equipment from the company, when located in Riverhead, LI., automatic boiler controls, flame detectors, concentric oil ingintor, power arc probe, other ignitors, more, with printed material and plans and about 50 color pictures of the equipment in operation, flame on, with a BW photograph of the USS Transcolorado and another photograph of an unknown installation site(?); (with) a binder containing some older catalog materials on Combustion Engineering Inc., with index, some hundreds of pages, black and white illustrated and probably of 1950s vintage, concerning pilot oil torches, gas torches, WR-T oil guns, QC panel oil guns, nozzle parts, burners, fuels, oil burning equipment, material on the combustion of pulverized coal, "T" & "R" burner illustratinos, more; 3 binders are old cloth type, with some wear and soiling, endpapers blackening, other two are in red vinyl; materials contained in generally very good and clean condition, and give an interesting background to the technology and business of this Long Island engineering firm in the middle of the twentieth century.
C. 1950s-1980s Archive of Material from the Long Island Engineering Firm of Frederick Cowan & Co. Including Photographs, Plans, Documents and Other Ephemera Relating to the Business
(Frederick Cowan & Co.)
Long Island New York: Frederick Cowan & Co., 1950.
Price: $450.00
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40 pages; illustrations by Harry Fenn; a privately-printed prospectus for the development of an exclusive resort property on the east end of Long Island, at Nassau Point on Peconic Bay; including the often-missing large hand-colored folding map of Long Island by J.B. Beers at back which is composed of two sections, 15" x 27 1/4" each approx. (western section very good, eastern section with short [2"] old tape repair - still a good-looking Long Island map); black and white illustrated throughout, promoting the idyllic surroundings for the proposed venture; with three large folding plates as well: Sketch Map of Peconic Park (old tape repairs at left side); Proposed Hotel (one small section with closed tear, some edgewear); Plan of Proposed Bridge (to Nassau Point, very good); the book describes the voyage to the location by the ship "Eureka" and the findings of the voyagers, their surprise and delight at the wonders of Nassau Point, owned by Peconic Park Estate: "...on the peninsula of the Park the eye and mind are continually pleased by the broken character of the ground, and by fleeting views of the lovely bay, which open out in the most unexpected way at every turn..."; much comparison is made with the advantages held by the proposed development over Easthampton, Southampton, vacation spots in New Jersey and elsewhere; the hotel's surroundings and geography are minutely described in order to 'sell' the properties' worth: "...On the western or right-hand side (if we continue to face southward), Robbins' Island looms up, separated from the Park by a broad strait...Robbins' Island is a very pretty piece of ground, with low cliffs along parts of its shore and a liberal supply of woods. It is owned by a sporting club of gentlemen from Brooklyn, who have stocked it plentifully with various kinds of game birds, and have built a pleasant club-house near the northern end, where the red roof peeps out pleasantly from green coverts, and is visible from the hotel site..." and "...Peconic Park...a piece of territory certainly unique in this portion of Long Island, and not easy to surpass in natural fitness for a family summer resort. A domain of wooded upland and verdant fields, graceful slopes and...where the best facilities exist for healthful exercise and diversion on land or water; or where the tired refugee from the metropolis may recline at ease, listening to the song-sparrow....destined to gain a high place and great popularity in the estimation of seekers for summer homes..."; and giving information on the history of the area, with literary (James Fenimore Cooper ref.) and local townships' historical details, access for transportation arrangements, roads, boats, Long Island Rail Road, more; previous ownership name of William J. Halloran Flushing L.I. N.Y. on front endpaper; book is approximately 8" x 10 1/4" size; bound in the original decoratively lettered and stamped brown cloth, also illustrated by Harry Fenn; binding soiled and worn, still good; some closed tears and splitting along old fold lines of maps and illustrations, and with no losses; good condition overall and an interesting proposal for a Long Island real estate development scheme, which was never realized in this form - albeit Nassau Point became an exclusive and beautiful resort, a well-known summer Southold Town community; interestingly authored by George Parsons Lathrop (1851-1898) American poet, novelist, well-known editor especially of the definitive works of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Lathrop married Hawthorne's daughter) "...distinguished work as an author must not be overshadowed by the record of his and Rose's marital misfortunes, including their perpetual financial insolvency and George's ill health, bruited at times as alcoholism and reported mostly as "acute gastric distress." He was a talented writer and assumed the lead in the Hawthorne family at the task of utilizing properly its legacy of Hawthorne book contracts, an important source of revenue for all of Nathaniel's survivors..." (ANB); we assume that here was an attempt by Lathrop to bolster his fortunes by association promoting this real estate venture; the illustrations by Harry Fenn (1845-1911) English-born American illustrator perfectly complement the 'pitch' of this promotional piece.
Peconic Park an Exploration on Long Island
Lathrop, George Parsons
New York: Privately Printed, 1883.
Price: $450.00
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This is the two-volume set issued in commemoration of the 100 year anniversary of the club; consists of a facsimile of the first volume issued by the club commemorating the first fifty years, and The Second Fifty Years, 1941-1991; 194 + x + 251 pages, the second volume with map endpapers illustrating the original Maidstone links of 1899 and the 1991 golf and tennis facilities along with the golf course, designed by Willie Park, Jr.; black and white, color illustrations, history of the club and its noteworthy members and accomplishments in sport; both books identically hardbound with in blue polished cloth boards, tan linen cloth spines; black and white and color illustrated; a limited edition of 750 copies, slipcased; case with the arms of the club and titles in silver on front and back; case has slight edge, tips wear and rubbing; very good plus condition; a good club history for this prestigious 'Top-100' course on the east end of Long Island.
The Maidstone Club: 1891-1991 The First Hundred Years
(Maidstone Club)
Easthampton, New York: The Maidstone Club, 1991.
Price: $450.00
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Hand-colored; List of Maps collated complete, with 25 maps + index map; all are hand colored, engraved by Balliet & Volk, 27 So. 6th St., Philadelphia; very large folio size double page maps, approximately 27 1/2" x 37" size opened; all maps are laid onto linen, with the remains only of leather number edge-tabs, as is usually found with these - leaving discoloration where the tabs 'bled' onto the paper at that point; Locations include all of the 4th & 5th Ward areas in Queens Borough, including: Ackroyd, Arverne, Bayswater, Bayedge, Belmont Park, Brooklyn Hills Imp. Co., Brooklyn Hills, Brooklyn Manor, Cedar Hills, Clinton Park, Columbia Park, Clarenceville, Dexter Park, Dunton, Dunton Park, Edgemere, Far Rockaway, Fulton Heights, Hillside Park, Hoffman Park Hollis Heights, Hollis, Holliswood, Hollis Park, Inglewood, Idlewild, Jamaica Garden, Jamaica Heights, Jamaica Village, Jamaica Lot Association, Lawson's Property, Locust Lawn, Locust Manor, Man's Property, Morris Park, Maple Hill Park, Morningside Park, Normal Park, Ocean Crest, Ozone Park, Ozone Park Home Co., Phraner Park, Queens Borough Park, Queens Village, Richmond Hill, Richmond Hill Terrace, Rockaway Beach, Rosedale, South Side Park, Springfield, St. Albans, Talfourd, Union Terrace, Union Land and Improvement Co., Unionville, Union Course, Wave Crest, West Jamaica, Woodhaven, Woodhaven Junction, Woodhaven Park, Woodhull Park; with Street Index, in columns; very minute and thorough in describing and listing businesses, fire houses, water facilities, public utilities, cemeteries, schools, residences, public works, streets, transportation-railroad & tram lines, describing personal homes, brick, frame, brownstone, houses and any permutation of these in separate colors and keyed to the map, block numbers of lots, numbers for houses, original farmlines and owners' names with map number, buildings with stores on first floor, stables, old buildings and houses, old foundations, greenhouses, asphalt pavements and in a few instances brick pavements, macadamized and Granite or Belgian pavements, opened and unopened streets, sewers with dimensions, water mains and dimensions, railroads, trolley lines, elevated railroads, fire hydrants, much more; with some marginal soiling and darkening, edgewear to a few of the maps; title page a few of the maps more darkened than others, a few pencil marks occasionally; Map 24 with some staining on the inner portion of the map; the maps loose and unbound, but both covers are here, loose; overall, maps are in good to very good condition and colors bright; an interesting atlas and an excellent source of material for this area in the Borough of Queens, for architectural, cultural, business & historical research, heavy, will require special shipping arrangements.
Atlas of the Borough of Queens, City of New York: Volume I: Fourth and Fifth Wards Jamaica and Rockaway
Ullitz, Hugo
Brooklyn New York: E. Belcher Hyde, 1901.
Price: $450.00
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Hard Cover. Very Good Hand-colored; List of Maps collated complete, with 20 maps + index map + zone map at back; all are hand colored, with the exception of the interesting "General Plan of New York City Municipal Airport at Idlewild - Scale 1000 Feet to the inch" which is rendered in black and white; very large folio size; maps printed on one side only, excepting the last which is back to back with the zone map; single-plates maps; approximately 27 1/2" x 20" size; all maps are on stiff paper stock; with cloth number edge-tabs; with a useful set of indexes for research: New street names - newly numbered and former names in present use, Old street names - former names now replaced by new numbers; block index, with the former numbers & replacements, former numbers still remaining in use; register's block index; Locations include this portion of the 4th Ward areas in Queens Borough in Jamaica; detailed listings, very minute and thorough in describing and listing businesses, fire houses, water facilities, public utilities, cemeteries, schools, residences, public works, streets, transportation-railroad & tram lines, describing personal homes, brick, frame, brownstone, houses and any permutation of these in separate colors and keyed to the map, block numbers of lots, numbers for houses, map numbers, buildings with stores on first floor, stables, old buildings and houses, old foundations, greenhouses, asphalt pavements and in a few instances brick pavements, macadamized and Granite or Belgian pavements, opened and unopened streets, sewers with dimensions, water mains and dimensions, railroads, trolley lines, elevated railroads, fire hydrants, much more; heavy, cloth covered boards binding with red cloth cover title label, gilt titles; boards dulled, with some wear and rubbing, fraying, dustiness; maps are in very good condition and colors bright; an interesting atlas and an excellent source of material for this area in the Borough of Queens, for architectural, cultural, business & historical research; of particular interest is the Idlewild Airport plan, which depicts the runways and central terminal area, fuel storage; along with important information regarding the new air transport facility and its construction & use: an area of 4, 527 acres, 9 miles of runways, paving of 2,500,000 sq. yards of concrete, 41 million cubic yards of fill, seaway basin for seaplane landings, provision for 40 hangars, 30,000 cars, 40,000 personnel; with an interesting chart compiled by American Airlines, Inc. "Estimated Future Air Traffic - New York City" with columns: Year after War (1,3,5, 7,10), Plane arrivals, departures, peak hour movements; the airlines authorized to serve in New York City included 13 services according to this list: American, American Export, British Overseas, Colonial, Eastern, National, Northeast, Northwest, Pan-American, Pennsylvania Central, TransCanada, Transcontinental and Western Airlines and United; with "Space is Available to Accommodate Additional Airlines); good air transportation historical material on this important airways hub, now Kennedy International airport; heavy, will require special shipping arrangements.
New Series Atlas of the Borough of Queens City of New York Duplex Edition Volume Four C S. Easterly Part of 4th Ward Between Farmers Blvd. And the Nassau County Line (South of 130th Ave.) Jamaica
(Borough of Queens)
New York: E. Belcher Hyde, 1945.
Price: $450.00
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C. 200 pages of manuscript church reports, records followed by the details of the Queens County farming business of the Bergen family; volume begins with alphabetical list of church members with names: Baylis, Bennem, Cornell, Collison, Carpenter, Bergen (many), Dickerson, Dean, Horsfield, Herrick, Harrington, Hendrickson, Kellogg, Kissam, Maccrum, Mitchell, Martin, Prink, Remsen, Richardson, Suydam, Simonson, Tomkins, Terahan, Valentine, Wiggins, Van Nostrand, Wade, Williams, Whitmore, Wood, more, with following pages detailing each member's history with the church, dues paid, how much & when and notes- ie. "Expelled" "resigned", more, mostly between 1868 and 1872; followed by a several-leaves section concerning the "Treasurers Acct. of the Reformed S. School of Queens" which extends from 1885-86 detailing expenses-Christmas wreaths, Board of Foreign Missions, Domestic Missions, something called 12 Mile chest, Brooklyn Hymns, 300 book covers, and much more; the farming accounts are from 1886-1892 and give information on hay sales, individual accounts with the farm and people; folks paid for tasks, amounts owed, seed, equipment and crops bought and sold, more; with a few other notes and letters laid-in; all written in good legible hands, mostly regarding receipts and information concerning the Bergen farming endeavours; some farming 'receipts' for -buttermaking, "to keep hens healthy", rule for selling locust (wood), plowing information, other farming 'hints' of 19th century America; on last leaf is a set of instructions in a mid-19th century hand for the dance "Lancers" with all the steps written out; 8" x 12 1/4" approx. format; some wear and rubbing to covers, detaached, spine perished, mostly still bound as one; few leaves at back lacking, torn out; good condition and interesting Long Island church and society, farming & business history for New York & Queens County.
1868-1892 Ledger & Record Book Queens Long Island New York Containing Manuscript Notations for a Church Group, Sunday School of the Dutch Reformed Church and a Queens Farmer, All Related to the Bergen Family with Laid-in Related Ephemera & MS Material
(Queens)
Queens Long Island: 1868.
Price: $350.00
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Map of Long Island; laid-down on linen at an early date; in red, blue, black; two maps in one, accomodating the length of territory that is Long Island, with an inset of the eastern section including Gardiner's Island; each map about 15" x 30", with margins making it overall approx. 34" x 32"; an interesting map for property development history, highway and Long Island Rail Road, road building and for a glimpse at the town locations and geography of Long Island at the turn of the century; at this time the Vanderbilt Cup had been raced for a couple of years and the decision had been made to build the Long Island Motor Parkway to accomodate the race; map somewhat darkened; some separation from old backing and splitting along folds; a little spotting; had been folded in half & rolled originally, and will be shipped that way for safety; generally in clean condition and good and a nicely preserved early twentieth century Long Island map.
Map of Long Island 1906
(Long Island)
New York: C.S. Hammond & Co., 1906.
Price: $350.00
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Poster signed "Grace Hartigan" at middle bottom left in black ink, a good clear signature; Black and white; approx. 11 3/4" x 15"; depicting the artists' abstract work "Poxabogue" by Grace Hartigan (1922-2008) American Abstract Expressionist painter of the New York School, friend of de Kooning, Pollock and many others, herself a very influential force in early pop art and widely collected; Robert Keene, a Southampton, Long Island NY town historian, bookseller and publisher - cultivated friendships and social interaction with inner-circle artists & literati in the Hamptons, also occasionally printing books & ephemeral material of local and regional interest, here promoting his then-wife Hartigan, a very brief one-year marriage for the artist; slight wear; in very good condition, a nice ephemeral art history item of the New York School artists
1959 Grace Hartigan Art Exhibition Poster Signed By the Artist -"Paintings Summer Work… The Robert Keene Gallery Southampton"
(Grace Hartigan)
1959.
Price: $350.00
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2 sepia-tone photographs; particularly poignant, of 4 men in military garb carrying a stretcher with man aboard with pillow cradling his head, walking along a planked way between rails - which lead back to a troop carrier ship at dock (identified only from the funnel number '23' - a double-masted steam-sailer, single funnel visible midship) - bystanders watching the movement, soldiers lounging on shore, others at deck railings; (with) a shoreline image, foreground having several cloth-covered ambulance wagons, with a group of women and men in attendance, workers helping unload - in mid-ground is the Moran tug-boat Alfred W. Booth, which had been transferred to the U.S. Navy at this time and renamed the 'Massasoit' - the old name still visible here on the bow and deck-house and with several other transport steam ships in background - all boats at very temporary-looking shoreline docking facilities; images 4 1/2" x 6 3/4" size, mounted to beveled & gilt-edged cards at 6 1/2" x 8 1/2" overall; both with the publisher's notation of "....From...Corwith's Pharmacy, Southampton, N.Y." at bottom edge of mount; evidently this event, the quarantining of troops at Camp Wikoff in Montauk in 1898, was of great local interest and Corwith's took advantage of this by selling the imagery - and perhaps helped also with medicaments for the military - over 300 female nurses were at one time employed at the camp; no other photographer or studio noted; some spotting and foxing to the mounts, one with closed cut at top edge; images very good overall and are interesting U.S. military, Spanish American War, Montauk Long Island history imagery; Camp Wikoff hosted 29,000 soldiers including Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders at the conclusion of the Spanish-American War, to quarantine for fevers and other tropical diseases before the troops could be sent to their homes.
1898 2 Cabinet Card Photographs of United States Army Spanish American War Troops Being Transported from Ships at Montauk, Long Island to Camp Wikoff Quarantine
(Spanish American War)
Southampton, New York: Corwith's Pharmacy, 1898.
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Hand-colored; List of Maps collated complete, with 37 maps + index map + zone map at back; all are hand colored; very large folio size; maps printed back to back, single-plates; approximately 27 1/2" x 20" size; all maps are on stiff paper stock; with cloth number edge-tabs; with a useful set of indexes for research: New street names - newly numbered and former names in present use, Old street names - former names now replaced by new numbers; block index; register's block index; Locations include this portion of the 4th Ward areas in Queens Borough in Jamaica; detailed listings, very minute and thorough in describing and listing businesses, fire houses, water facilities, public utilities, cemeteries, schools, residences, public works, streets, transportation-railroad & tram lines, describing personal homes, brick, frame, brownstone, houses and any permutation of these in separate colors and keyed to the map, block numbers of lots, numbers for houses, and owners' names with map number, buildings with stores on first floor, stables, old buildings and houses, old foundations, greenhouses, asphalt pavements and in a few instances brick pavements, macadamized and Granite or Belgian pavements, opened and unopened streets, sewers with dimensions, water mains and dimensions, railroads, trolley lines, elevated railroads, fire hydrants, much more; title page map coming loose from its cloth tab; corrections noted to August of 1943, with their appropriate pasted-in portions, done neatly and carefully; heavy, cloth covered boards binding with dark red leather cover title label, gilt titles; boards dulled, with some wear and rubbing, fraying, dustiness; maps are in very good condition and colors bright; an interesting atlas and an excellent source of material for this area in the Borough of Queens, for architectural, cultural, business & historical research; heavy, will require special shipping arrangements.
New Series Atlas of the Borough of Queens City of New York Duplex Edition Volume Four Westerly Part of 4th Ward from Boro Line of Brooklyn to Van Wyck Blvd. Jamaica
(Borough of Queens)
New York: E. Belcher Hyde, 1936.
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Hand-colored; List of Maps collated complete, with 24 maps + index map + zone map at back; all are hand colored; very large folio size; maps printed on one side only, excepting the last which is back to back with the zone map; single-plates maps; approximately 27 1/2" x 20" size; all maps are on stiff paper stock; with cloth number edge-tabs; with a useful set of indexes for research: New street names - newly numbered and former names in present use, Old street names - former names now replaced by new numbers; block index, with the former numbers & replacements; register's block index; Locations include this portion of the 4th Ward areas in Queens Borough in Jamaica; detailed listings, very minute and thorough in describing and listing businesses, fire houses, water facilities, public utilities, cemeteries, schools, residences, public works, streets, transportation-railroad & tram lines, describing personal homes, brick, frame, brownstone, houses and any permutation of these in separate colors and keyed to the map, block numbers of lots, numbers for houses, map numbers, buildings with stores on first floor, stables, sewers with dimensions, water mains and dimensions, railroads, trolley lines, elevated railroads, fire hydrants, much more; heavy, cloth covered boards binding with red cloth cover title label, gilt titles; boards dulled, with some wear and rubbing, fraying, dustiness; maps are in very good condition and colors bright; an interesting atlas and an excellent source of material for this area in the Borough of Queens, for architectural, cultural, business & historical research; heavy, will require special shipping arrangements.
New Series Atlas of the Borough of Queens City of New York Duplex Edition Volume Four B N. Easterly Part of 4th Ward Between Farmers Blvd. And the Nassau County Line (North of 130th Ave.) Jamaica
(Borough of Queens)
New York: E. Belcher Hyde, 1942.
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The purpose of this planning study was to accomplish the objectives set forth in the town's historic preservation ordinances, "...while providing for and encouraging growth and development within the Village...; with physical history of the area & its growth, information on commercial properties, apartments, residences, the economy, including statistical data from the time; tourism - visits to the Whaling museum, Custom House, "Yankee Clipper" visitors; detailed parking, vehicular movement & planning with zoning proposals and more; with a page of references consulted at back; With (10) large sheets of text which are found on the back of each of the 10 "figures" of this report - each of which unfold to 25" x 17"; and include: base map of Sag Harbor, showing the historic and business districts; the business dist. study area; land use and economic base, printed in vivid colors with accompanying legend (scale about 200 feet to the inch); traffic flow study; vehicular flow turning patterns; parking inventory, proposed zoning; western area planning; suggested treatment - main street shops (one side of a sheet, as part of the Figure 9 plate folding ensemble); existing and proposed pedestrian circulation; proposed by-pass routes, a no-truck route, possible pedestrian mall, public parking lot; prepared for the village by Robert H. Pine A.I.P., with graphics by Gerald Cross; the town feared that unless changes were made, they would have to "...entrust the development of the center of Sag Harbor's economic life and the core of its historic area over the next twenty years to an obsolescent zoning ordinance...continued drift in this area with more unsightly, chaotic development and more and more complaints..."; very large format, approximately 17" x 13" size; Printed By Eastern Suffolk Printing Riverhead New York; original stiff-cardstock printed paper covers, spiral-comb binding; some wear, chipping to edges of covers, the plans and maps in very good condition; interesting Long Island historic preservation and urban planning, architectural ephemera.
Planning Study of the Sag Harbor Business District
(Sag Harbor)
Sag Harbor Long Island New Yor: The Village of Sag Harbor, 1975.
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