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The iconography of Manhattan island, 1498-1909 : compiled from original sources and illvstrated by photo-intaglio reprodvctiors of important maps, plans, views and docvments in pvblic and private collections / by I. N. Phelps Stokes.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stokes, I. N. Phelps (Isaac Newton Phelps), 1867-1944.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- National Book Committee.
- Cartography--America--History.
- Cartography.
- American newspapers--New York (State)--New York--Bibliography.
- American newspapers.
- Early maps.
- Bibliography.
- History.
- New York (State)--New York.
- America.
- New York (N.Y.)--Description and travel--Maps.
- New York (N.Y.).
- Maps.
- America--Maps--Bibliography.
- New York (N.Y.)--Description and travel--Views.
- Views.
- New York (N.Y.)--History.
- New York (N.Y.)--Bibliography.
- America--Maps, Early.
- America--Discovery and exploration--Sources.
- Discoveries in geography.
- Genre:
- Bibliographies.
- Maps.
- Sources.
- Physical Description:
- 6v. : frontispiece(part color,part double)illustrations,plates(part color,part folded,part double)including portraits,maps,plans,facsimiles ; 29cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : R. H. Dodd, 1915-1928.
- Contents:
- v.1. The period of discovery (1524-1609); the Dutch period (1609-1664) The English period (1664-1763) The revolutionary period (1763-1783). Period of adjustment and reconstruction; New York as the state and federal capital (1783-1811)
- v.2. Cartography: An essay on the development of knowledge regarding the geography of the east coast of North America; Manhattan island and its environs on early maps and charts, by C. F. Wieder and I. N. Phelps Stokes. The Manutus maps, the first survey of Manhattan island (1639) The Castello plan, showing the city of New Amsterdam in ... 1660. The Dutchgrants. Early New York newspapers (1725-1811) Plan of Manhattan island in 1908.
- v.3. The war of 1812 (1812-1815); period of invention, prosperity, and progress (1815-1841) Period of industrial and educational development (1842-1860) The civil war (1861-1865); period of political and social development (1865-1876) The modern city and island (1876-1909)
- v.4. Chronology, 565-1776.
- v.5. Chronology, 1776-1909.
- v.6. Chronology: addenda. Original grants and farms. Bibliography [by Victor H. Paltsits] Index.
- Notes:
- Engraved t.-p., with ornamental border; engraved head and tail pieces. "Most of the head-bands and tail-pieces were engraved ... by Mr. Sidney L. Smith from designs composed by the author." Others by Walter M. Aikman.
- "Of this book three hundred and sixty copies have been printed on English hand-made paper [4-6 on Holland hand-made paper] and forty-two on Japanese vellum." This copy on Japanese vellum.
- Vol.2 has additional note: Twenty-five copies of parts I, II, and III have been printed for presentation to foreign libraries.
- OCLC:
- 20774798
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