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    Manhattan in Maps 1527-2014
    Manhattan in Maps 1527-2014
    Manhattan in Maps 1527-2014
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    Manhattan in Maps 1527-2014

    By Paul E. Cohen, Robert T. Augustyn and Eric W. Sanderson

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    More than 400 years of history unfold in the pages of this lavishly illustrated volume, which presents sixty-five full-color maps of America's oldest major city. This is Manhattan's first atlas of historical maps, gathered from private collections and libraries throughout the world. From Giovanni da Verrazzano's first glimpse of New York Harbor in the sixteenth century to a modern aerial survey of the island, these rare and beautiful maps recount the city's urban and social history.
    Each map is accompanied by a fascinating essay that explores its portrait of New York's changing physical and social contours. Examples from the Dutch colonial period reflect the findings of Manhattan's earliest European settlers. New York was the command center for British forces during the Revolution, and wartime maps painstakingly delineate the battleground's streams, swamps, hills, and shoreline. Frederick Law Olmsted and Calvert Vaux's original plan for Central Park appears here, along with charts that reveal the development of the Manhattan grid as well as the expansion of ethnic neighborhoods, midtown vice, and the subway system. Each entry cites the map's title, date of creation and publication, cartographer, medium, and the institution or private collection where the map is archived. There is a Foreword by Tony Hiss, a bibliography, and complete index, as well as a new Introduction by Marguerite Holloway, author of The Measure of Manhattan (2013), and an essay by landscape ecologist Eric W. Sanderson, which includes a map by Mr. Sanderson and cartographer Markley Boyer providing a view of Manhattan Island as Henry Hudson might have seen it in 1609.
    "Here then is the story of Manhattan as it was, as it is, and even as it might have been. Maps tell the story. All the output of all the journalists who have written about Manhattan does not succeed half as well."—Ted Koppel, former managing editor and anchor, Nightline
    "Manhattan in Maps enables us all to look through layers of time and concrete to the ground of life in this city through over three centuries. . . . an invaluable visual guide to New York City history."—Alice C. Hudson, Chief, Map Division, Center for Humanities, The New York Public Library

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDover Publications
    Release dateOct 20, 2014
    ISBN9780486799414
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      Manhattan in Maps 1527-2014 - Paul E. Cohen

      THE LOST FIRST HAP

      THE MAGGIOLO MAP

      Untitled

      DATE DEPICTED

      : 1527 (?)

      DATE DRAWN

      : Original, 1527; facsimile (one sheet of four depicted here), 1905

      CARTOGRAPHER

      : V

      ESCONTE DE

      M

      AGGIOLO

      Original, Pen and ink and watercolors on vellum, 24 × 71 ¼ inches; facsimile, lithographic print, four sheets 19 × 24 inches each

      Harvard Map Collection

      Before it was destroyed during World War II, The Maggiolo Map was the earliest map to provide a representation of the New York City area. The island of Manhattan itself would not be depicted on a map until nearly a century later, on Block’s Map of the Northeast (see p. 8). Dated 1527, just three years after Verrazano’s brief reconnaissance of New York Harbor, this splendid, hand-drawn map of the world was the work of Vesconte de Maggiolo, member of a prominent Genoese family of cartographers. Although produced not long after Verrazano’s exploration, Maggiolo’s mapping of the east coast of the United States was at some remove fromVerrazano’s original data and likely derived from an unknown prototype. There is some question as to what is represented at any particular point on the map; however, the location of New York Harbor can be determined with some certainty: it appears slightly to the west of an island identified as luisa, which most believe to be Block Island. Shown on the map near what is thought to be New York Harbor are versions of two place-names that Verrazano was known to have applied to the area, B.S. Margarita and Anguileme. The configuration of this area on Maggiolo’s map—two bays divided by headlands, with a river emptying into the northernmost of the two—approximates that of the actual harbor. Although produced decades later, the small Gastaldi Map (see p. 4) provides a considerably more precise view of the New York area than the one found here. The Maggiolo map was housed at the Biblioteca Ambrosiana in Milan when it was destroyed.

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