(Text Page to) Notes : Prepared by Leonard A. Bradley, Counsellor at Law for Spielmann & Brush. New York Common Lands. (to accompany) Certified copies of original maps of property in New York City. Published by Spielmann & Brush civil engineers, Hoboken, N.J. 1881
Certified copies of original maps of property in New York City, filed in the Register's Office and elsewhere, together with the Register's index to maps and important notes regarding the same. Published by Spielmann & Brush, civil engineers, Hoboken, N.J. 1881. Entered according to act of Congress in the year of 1881 by Spielmann & Brush, in the Office of the Librarian of Congress at Washington.
Text: Notes : New York Common Lands

Text in 26 page, concerning the land titles, with detailed information about many of the record series. Library has pages 1-8, Lacking pages 9-26.
First edition of atlas of the New York common lands as surveyed, with 186 pages of 93 double-page hand-colored lithograph maps and 8 incomplete pages of Notes prepared by Leonard A. Bradley, Counselor at law, concerning the land titles, with detailed information about many of the record series. Note is Lacking pages 9-26. Maps contain brief descriptions of land title records, types of deeds, creating agency, and date span. Showing the original history of the island, with all the block measurements, tracts, lot number, land owner, streets and waterways. Uniform street grid of Manhattan laid on top of the former property lines of farms. Bound in dark red cloth covered boards with title “Filed maps of New-York City, N.Y.” in gilt pasted on front cover and stamped on spine.