Coast Chart No. 53, Coast of South Carolina, From Long Island to Hunting Island including Charleston Harbor and St. Helena Sound U.S. Coast Survey

YEAR PUBLISHED: 1866

Coast Chart No. 53, Coast of South Carolina, From Long Island to Hunting Island including Charleston Harbor and St. Helena Sound

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SKU: 1097

DESCRIPTION

A striking and scarce chart of Charleston Harbor and Saint Helena Sound, and the approaches to the harbor and sound. Great detail is given by numerous soundings, aids, and hazards to navigation, channels, buoys, lighthouses, reefs, and bearings. Notes on tides, lighthouses, light vessels and soundings are given. North and South Edisto Rivers are shown between the harbor and the sound. Terrestrial detail is superb with vegetation, properties/farms, city layouts, rivers, and streams. A very desirable chart.

IMPORTANT NOTE:

All of our United States Coast Survey (USCS), United States Coast & Geodetic Survey (USC&GS), and similar maps and charts have been professionally unfolded and flattened using humidity baths, semi-permeable membrane, and drying blotter techniques. Most others you typically see on eBay have not been, and worse, are quickly and crudely unfolded for the low-quality photos you see. Unfolding these maps in that way is damaging and weakens them. Please be aware.

FULL TITLE

Coast Chart No. 53, Coast of South Carolina, From Long Island to Hunting Island including Charleston Harbor and St. Helena Sound, From a Trigonometrical Survey under the direction of A.D. Bache Superintendent of the Survey of the Coast of The United States, Triangulation by A.D. Bache Superdt., C.O. Boutelle and C.P. Bolles Assistants, Topography by S.A. Gilbert, J. Seib, R.M. Bache, G.D. Wise Assts., W.S. Edwards and C. Rockwell Sub-Assts., Hydrography by the parties under the command of Lieuts. Comdg. J.N. Maffitt, J.E. Bankhead U.S.N. and C.O. Boutelle Assts., Published in 1866

MAPMAKER/CARTOGRAPHER/AUTHOR

United States Coast Survey, A.D. Bache Superintendent

PUBLISHER

Washington: Government Printing Office, 1867

PUBLICATION

39th Congress, 1st Session, House of Representatives, Ex. Doc. No. 75

DIMENSIONS (Inches)

43.5 X 36

CONDITION

Very fine with overall toning, darkened fold lines, some archival tape reinforcment at folds on verso, folded as issued, professionally flattened, see photos for details.