NYC BOOK AWARDS 1997
Manhattan in Maps
Paul E. Cohen & Robert T. Augustyn
"The illustrations of the maps (many never published before) are lapidary, the weight and touch of the volume's pages a voluptuous pleasure. It is the text, however, brilliantly describing the mind set of the different era's map-makers which makes this book extraordinarily valuable."
- The Award Committee
This lavishly illustrated volume explores New York's urban and social history through rare and beautiful maps of the city produced during the past four hundred years and collected from archives and libraries throughout the world. From a crude woodblock engraving depicting Giovanni da Verrazano's first glimpse of New York Harbor in the sixteenth century to the latest satellite photographs of Manhattan, these important documents offer an unprecedented "avenue to New York's past."
Paul E. Cohen has been a dealer in antique maps and rare books with the New York Firm of Richard B. Arkway, Inc. for the past ten years. He has served as director of the New-York Historical Society's library and worked at Columbia University Libraries.
Robert T. Augustyn is one of the owners of the antique map and rare book firm of Martayan Lan in New York and has worked in the field for twenty years.
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