NYC BOOK AWARD 1997
Manhattan in Maps
Paul E. Cohen & Robert T. Augustyn
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."
"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
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