Title: Report of the Superintendent of the Coast Survey, Showing the Progress of the Survey During the Year 1853 Author: U.S. Coast Survey Place: Washington Publisher: Robert Armstrong, Public Printer Date: 1854 Description: vi, 186, [2] pp. + 52 (of 54) engraved map charts and diagrams, most folding. 28x21.5 cm. (11x8½"), original gilt-lettered and blind-stamped cloth. Includes reconnaissances of the west coast from San Francisco to San Diego, San Diego entrance and approaches, northwest coast of Washington, Cape Flaherty, etc., plus the eastern seaboard and gulf coast. Compliments label from Prof. A.D. Bache, U.S. Coast Survey Superintendent, on the front pastedown, with old bookplate of Vienna library. Lacking Chart 10, Seacoast of Virginia, and Chart 14, sketch of Pungoteague Creek. Lot Amendments Condition: Minor extremity rubbing, some foxing and darkening text and to a few charts; very good or better. Item number: 216603
Title: Report of the Superintendent of the Coast Survey, Showing the Progress of the Survey During the Year 1853 Author: U.S. Coast Survey Place: Washington Publisher: Robert Armstrong, Public Printer Date: 1854 Description: vi, 186, [2] pp. + 52 (of 54) engraved map charts and diagrams, most folding. 28x21.5 cm. (11x8½"), original gilt-lettered and blind-stamped cloth. Includes reconnaissances of the west coast from San Francisco to San Diego, San Diego entrance and approaches, northwest coast of Washington, Cape Flaherty, etc., plus the eastern seaboard and gulf coast. Compliments label from Prof. A.D. Bache, U.S. Coast Survey Superintendent, on the front pastedown, with old bookplate of Vienna library. Lacking Chart 10, Seacoast of Virginia, and Chart 14, sketch of Pungoteague Creek. Lot Amendments Condition: Minor extremity rubbing, some foxing and darkening text and to a few charts; very good or better. Item number: 216603
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