Preliminary Chart of Delaware and Chesapeake Bays and the Sea Coast from Cape Henlopen to Cape Charles U.S. Coast Survey

YEAR PUBLISHED: 1855

Preliminary Chart of Delaware and Chesapeake Bays and the Sea Coast from Cape Henlopen to Cape Charles

$55.00
SKU: 1465

DESCRIPTION

A very nice overview chart of Delaware and Chesapeake Bays showing great bathymetric details and aids and hazards to navigation. Numerous soundings, channels, bearings, lighthouses, buoys, sailing directions, and tidal information are given. Places, towns, harbors, and cities are shown.

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

C No. 3 Preliminary Chart of Delaware and Chesapeake Bays and the Sea Coast from Cape Henlopen to Cape Charles

MAPMAKER/CARTOGRAPHER/AUTHOR

U.S. Coast Survey, Bache, A. D. Superintendent

PUBLISHER

Cornelius Wendell, Printer 1856, Washington

PUBLICATION

Report of the Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, Showing the Progress of the Survey During the Year 1854, House Executive Document no. 6

DIMENSIONS (Inches)

26.75 X 33.5

CONDITION

Very good, with overall toning, darkened fold lines, some foxing at folds, some creases and slight tatters at left edge, folded as issued, cropped as issued. See photos for details.