| | Thumbnail | | Creator | Date | Title / Author / Date / Location | Price | | | Description |
| 7921 |  | Details | Nicholson, Francis | 1838 |
| Public squares, parks, and places in the city of New York |
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Nicholson, Francis |
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| 1838 |
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| $450.00 | Nicholson--Francis | Public-squares--parks--and-places-in-the-city-of-New-York | Maps of sixteen parks, on one sheet, covering various locales south of 125th Street in Manhattan, New York. Each park map gives dimensions and acreage, shows layout of park walkways and surrounding streets.
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From D.T. Valentines manual. 1838. H.R. Robinson, Lith. Compiled and surveyed by Francis Nicholson, City Surveyor. August, 1838.
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The 1838 “Manual of the Corporation of the City of New York” is considered a precursor volume to Valentine’s later annual manuals. Compiled when David Thomas Valentine (1841-1870) was Assistant Clerk of the Common Council, it served as an early attempt to assemble civic data, city charters, ordinances, and maps into a single reference work.
This 1838 edition predates the regular annual series and is not always listed among the later “official” manuals (which began in 1841), but bibliographers recognize it as the first appearance of Valentine’s work in this format.
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