Description:
New York City. Ensigns & Thayer, A Map of the City and County of New York. New York: Ensigns & Thayer, 1849.
12mo, including twenty-eight page typographical street directory, single leaf of ads, and folding engraved map printed on onion skin paper, hand-colored, including sections of Brooklyn, Jersey City, and Williamsburg; bound in publisher's cloth boards, title stamped in gold on front, some breaks along the folds of the map, rodent chewed section, 1 x 1 1/2 in., with loss of streets in Chinatown, south of Bayard Street.
Estimate $300-500
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