Take a virtual stroll up pre-Revolutionary Broadway -- the beginning of lower Manhattan’s street grid is clearly detailed in Bernard Ratzer's Plan of the City of New York, in North America: Surveyed in the Years 1766 & 1767. The map shows with equal clarity the pre-development forests and salt meadows as well as a number of cultivated fields and manor houses. Find City Hall on Wall Street; two decades later, it was Federal Hall where George Washington took the first presidential oath of office before heading west and north to pray at St. Paul’s. If your natural habitat is Lower Manhattan or Brooklyn, you’ll find yourself contemplating this beautiful work for years.

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Watch the VIDEO: Municipal Art Society President, Kent Barwick, on the Antique New York Maps.

The original work is available for $175,000. Inquire about purchase.