Ratzer – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com Blogging about maps since 2003 Wed, 04 Jul 2018 14:40:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.maproomblog.com/xq/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/cropped-logo-2017-04-32x32.jpg Ratzer – The Map Room https://www.maproomblog.com 32 32 116787204 Copy of Ratzer’s Map of Colonial New York Auctioned for $150,000 https://www.maproomblog.com/2018/07/copy-of-ratzers-map-of-colonial-new-york-auctioned-for-150000/ Wed, 04 Jul 2018 13:29:33 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=1785838 More]]>
Plan of the City of New York, in North America, 1776. Map, 123 × 89 cm. New York Public Library.

A 1776 map of New York City sold at auction in New York last April for $150,000, the Daily Mail reported at the time. The map is the second edition of the more famous, and rare, 1770 map showing the work of surveyor Bernard Ratzer. It was published in England, and was apparently put to use by British officers during the American Revolution. The New York Public Library’s copy has been digitized and is available online. [WMS]

Previously: Map of Colonial New Jersey Rediscovered.

]]> 1785838 Map of Colonial New Jersey Rediscovered https://www.maproomblog.com/2016/01/map-of-colonial-new-jersey-rediscovered/ Wed, 06 Jan 2016 21:30:37 +0000 http://www.maproomblog.com/?p=87 More]]> colonial-nj

A 1769 map of New Jersey by the famed colonial surveyor Bernard Ratzer, commissioned to settle a longstanding border dispute between New Jersey and New York, has been uncovered by a Harvard University librarian. The map, criss-crossed by competing and alternate boundary lines, has been digitized and is available to view online as part of Harvard’s Colonial North American project.

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