Image Title

:  A plan of the city of New-York & its environs : to Greenwich, on the North or Hudsons River, and to Crown Point, on the East or Sound River, shewing the several streets, publick buildings, docks, fort & battery, with the true form & course of the commanding grounds, with and without the town : survey'd in the winter, 1775 [i.e. 1766] / John Montresor, engineer ; P. Andrews, sculp.

Creator(s)

: Montrésor, John, 1736-1799  -- Engineer
Andrews, Peter, fl. 1765-1782 -- Engraver

Additional Name(s)

: Dury, Andrew -- Publisher

Published Date

: [1775]

Item Physical Description

: 1 map : hand col. ; 63 x 52 cm.

Notes

: Copy in Map Div. 97-6200 uncolored, in wooden frame. Note 2.) Includes descriptive note, "References," and inset "A chart of the entrance to New York from Sandy Hook, shewing the properest channel for sailing, with ye banks and depths of water," ca. 1:128,000.

Standard Reference

: Stokes, I. N. P. Iconography of Manhattan Island, I, pl. 40, p. 339-340

Source

: Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection of English maps, charts, globes, books and atlases / Charts and maps

Location

: Stephen A. Schwarzman Building / The Lionel Pincus and Princess Firyal Map Division

Catalog Call Number

: Map Div. 97-6200 [LHS 840; framed]

Digital ID

: 1268390

Record ID

: 613853

Digital Item Published

: 2-28-2006; updated 3-25-2011