Robert Benson Esq (2 results)
Published by London: Messrs. Christie, Mason and Woods' Offices, 1924, 1924
- Hardcover
- First Edition
Seller: Oriental Books, Hong Kong, Hong KongOriental Books
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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Slim quarto, 25.3*16.4cm, 51p plus 16 plts. 215 lots included, of which 35 are illustrated on 16 plates. Some tanning and very slight foxing to edges, otherwise a fine copy. Realized prices marked in pencil under the correspoding illustrations. Title on Front Cover: Illust…rated Catalogue of the Benson Collection of Early Chinese Porcelain and Pottery. Title on Title Page: Catalogue of a Portion of the Collection of Early Chinese Porcelain and Pottery Formed by Robert H. Benson, ESQ. Photos available upon request.
- Map
Seller: Daniel Crouch Rare Books Ltd, London, United KingdomDaniel Crouch Rare Books Ltd
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Original manuscript plat map of the area in lower Manhattan that would later become the site of the World Trade Center, and ultimately the 9/11 Memorial Original pen and ink and colour wash on vellum, contemporary manuscript title on verso "Hudson Market", later inscription "Vesey Street Market", "3-S", old vertical folds. The n…ew Hudson Market, historically known as the Bear Market, is depicted in this map oriented with southeast to the top, bordered by Greenwich Street to the left, Vesey Street and "Corporation Dock" at the bottom, Partition Street along the top, and a "Dock" and a "Slip" extending into the Hudson River on the right. The survey is amongst the earliest work of the young City Surveyor, John McComb, and was prepared to record the auction of nine new lots, here coloured green, on land recently reclaimed from the Hudson River. What is now the site of the 9/11 Memorial, first appeared in a survey of 1625, as one small corner of thirty-three acres set aside to grow food for the colony of the Dutch West India Company. In an effort to colonize Manhattan, the Dutch offered leases and land grants, and this acreage along the North River, was divided into farms, or "bouweries". In 1636, Annetje Jansen became the owner of one of the farms when she was widowed. In 1664, the British gained control of New Amsterdam, and in 1671, Annetje's heirs sold the Bouwery Farm, which extended from Broadway to the Hudson, and from today's Cortlandt Street to Fulton Street, to Colonel Francis Lovelace, the governor of New York. He renamed the Bouwery Farm, the King's Farm. In 1697, the Crown leased the King's Farm to Trinity Church for "60 bushells of winter wheat". Over time, the King's Farm, became the Queen's Farm (for Queen Anne), and then the Church Farm (for Trinity Church), but, it was not until the eighteenth century, that this remote piece of land, bordered by swampland and waterfront, began to expand. The slips that appear in this map, were long a feature of the waterfront of lower Manhattan. They extend out into the water, creating small sheltered moorings for watercraft. Inevitably, the inlets silt up, and were opportunistically filled in. The adjacent streets were extended, and new slips created, along with new prime waterfront real estate. "New York's landfill had begun in earnest in 1686, when Governor Dongan issued a charter that granted the city the right to raise revenue by selling "water lots." Buyers were able to build slips and create land between the high- and low-water marks. In 1730, the city was given even greater latitude: the Montgomerie Charter allowed the sale of land four hundred feet out into the river, past the low-water mark. The following year, the Common Council granted John Chambers "all the Ground under Water in the Rear of his Said Lott from high water Mark to Low Water Mark". For this he would pay an annual rent of six pence per foot of shoreline. He was also required to construct "A Street of five and forty foot in breadth at the foot of the Bank the Center of which Street to be at high Water Mark, and also Another Street next and fronting Hudsons River of thirty foot in breadth"" (Schine). The forty-five-foot-wide street became Greenwich Street, the left-hand border of this map. Greenwich, Vesey and Partition, now Fulton, Streets, first appear on a map in 1754. In 1761, Partition and Vesey Streets were ceded by Trinity Church to the City, and the Church Farm soon became a hive of frantic commercial and maritime activity. In 1762, the property was surveyed and mapped, and on the 'Ratzen Plan' of 1766-67, the ferry to Paulus Hook, New Jersey, is clearly shown leaving from Cortlandt Street, at the bottom of the King's Wharf. In 1771, the Bear Market was built between Partition and Vesey Streets. It was so-named because a local butcher shot and killed a bear crossing the Hudson River, and displayed it there. It became one of the most important markets in the city, but on September 21, 1776, a few week.
