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Auction 141, Lot 255

"Coast Chart No. 20 - New York Bay And Harbor", U.S. Coast Survey

Subject: New York City, New York

Period: 1866 (dated)

Publication:

Color: Black & White

Size:
26.5 x 30.5 inches
67.3 x 77.5 cm
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The Office of Coast Survey is the oldest U.S. scientific organization, dating from 1807 when Congress directed that a "survey of the coast" be carried out. By 1836, it was called the U.S. Coast Survey and in 1878, the name was changed to the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. Today the Office of Coast Survey is a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA.

The survey teams, composed of civilians as well as Army and Naval officers, charted the nation's waterways and produced a wide array of reports, survey charts, hydrographic studies of tides and currents, astronomical studies and observations, and coastal pilots. These charts are an important record of the changing nature of the nation's coastlines. In additional to coastal charts, the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey produced land sketches, Civil War battle maps, and the early aeronautical charts.

This great coastal chart shows Sandy Hook, Raritan Bay, Staten Island, Brooklyn, Manhattan & the New Jersey shore along the Hudson River. Hundreds of depth soundings are depicted in the bay and into the Hudson and East Rivers. The chart includes detailed sailing directions & navigational notes on channels, lighthouses, buoys & beacons.

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Condition: C+

Issued folding with a number of fold separations resulting in minor loss, most of which have been repaired on verso with archival material. Light toning along the folds.

Estimate: $180 - $220

Sold for: $100

Closed on 9/5/2012

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