Potomac River Sheet No. 2 From Piney Point to Lower Cedar Point.

Seller: Geographicus Rare Antique Maps, Brooklyn, NY, U.S.A.Geographicus Rare Antique Maps

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Very good. Even overall toning. Blank on verso. Size 24 x 30.5 Inches. This is an 1877 U.S. Coast Survey nautical chart or maritime map of a section of the Potomac River. The map depicts the region from Lower Cedar Point to Piney Point and from Leonardtown, Maryland to Wakefield, Virginia. Highly detailed, myriad depth soundings, measured in feet, are present throughout. The Wicomico River, St. Clement Bay, and Breton's Bay in Maryland and Nomini Bay, Currioman Bay, and Mattox Creek in Virginia are all illustrated and labeled. Numerous points, beaches, creeks, and individual homesteads are also illustrated. Information concerning lighthouses, tides, depth soundings, and certain notations used on the map are situated in the lower right corner. This map was drawn by L.D. Williams and A. Lindenkohl, engraved by A. Maedel, H.S. Barnard, and A. Peterson, produced by the United States Coast Survey, and published in 1877 while Carlile Pollock Patterson was Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey.

Seller Inventory # PotomacRiverCedarPoint-uscs-1877

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Title
Potomac River Sheet No. 2 From Piney Point to Lower Cedar Point.
Author
1877 U.S.C.S. Nautical Chart or Maritime Map of Part of the Potomac River
Publication year
1877
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Geographicus Rare Antique Maps was founded in New York, New York, by Kevin James Brown in 1999. We are specialist antiquarians dealing in historic maps from all over the world and in all price ranges. Our enthusiasm, passion, and devotion to scholarship is expressed in our meticulously researched descriptions, among the most detailed and comprehensive available anywhere, for each and every rare map that passes over our desk. This same devotion guides the relationships of honesty and trust we have fostered with our clients, whether through purchasing or selling a rare map, getting an appraisal, or simply calling to discuss antique maps in general. We are happy to assist you no matter whether you are an interior decorator, an institution, an experienced collector, or are just looking for a single antique map. Geographicus is a member of the ABAA (Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America), the ILAB (International League of Antiquarian Booksellers), the New York Map Society, the Washington Map Society, the IMCOS, and the Society for the History of Discoveries. While primarily an internet-based company, we are happy to meet with clients to show our antique maps by appointment at our New York City location.

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