Paris: Dépôt des cartes et plans de la Marine [?], 1764
16.4 x 21.2 cm / 6.5 x 8.3 in
Description This fascinating chart depicting colonial New York City is from Jacques-Nicolas Bellin’s Le Petit Atlas Maritime. With close to 600 charts and a strong focus on harbour cities and.....
New York: MEYER, Herrmann Julius, c. 1855
15.9 x 11.4 cm / 6.3 x 4.5 in
Description This elegant steel engraving from the U.S. edition of Meyer’s Universum depicts the Crystal Palace, New York – an architecturally ground-breaking exhibition hall, built in 1853 for the Exhibition of the Industry of.....
New York: MEYER, Herrmann Julius, c. 1855
15.9 x 11.0 cm / 6.3 x 4.3 in
Description This elegant steel engraving from the U.S. edition of Meyer’s Universum depicts the Astor House, New York – a luxury hotel which opened in 1836 as the Park Hotel. The building stood at.....
New York: MEYER, Herrmann Julius, c. 1855
16.6 x 11.4 cm / 6.5 x 4.5 in
Description This elegant steel engraving from Meyer’s Universum depicts New York Bay, as seen from Hoboken, New Jersey, around the middle of the 19th century. Looking across the Hudson River in a southeasterly direction.....
New York: MEYER, Herrmann Julius, c. 1855
16.4 x 11.3 cm / 6.5 x 4.4 in
Description This elegant steel engraving from Meyer’s Universum depicts New York Bay, as seen from Staten Island, “near the lighthouse”, around the middle of the 19th century. Considering the time period as well as.....