New York Bay and Harbor, New York. / United States Coast Survey. / 1878

New York Bay and Harbor, New York. United States Coast Survey. 1878

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Full Title: New York Bay and Harbor, New York. From a trigonometrical survey ... Survey of the Coast of the United States. Triangulation by J. Ferguson and E. Blunt, assistants. Topography by H.L. Whiting, S.A. Gilbert, A.M. Harrison, assts., F.W. Dorr, C. Rockwell and J. Mechan sub-assts. Hydrography by the parties under the command of Lieuts. Comdg. R. Wainwright and T.A. Craven, U.S.N. assists. Published in 1866. Edition of 1877. (Philadelphia, Woolman & Rose, 1878)

Author: United States Coast Survey.

Date: 1878

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Author: United States Coast Survey.

Date: 1878

Short Title: New York Bay and Harbor, New York.

Publisher: Phila: Woolman & Rose

Type: Chart Map

Object Height cm: 54

Object Width cm: 32

Scale 1: 126,720

Note: Hand col. lithograph. Relief shown by hachures; soundings in feet and fathoms. Includes tables of light houses and beacons, tides and magnetic declination. Scale (ca. 1:126,720), not "1:80,000" as stated on map. Coast chart no. 20.

State / Province: New York ; New Jersey

City: New York (N.Y.) ; Staten Island (N.Y.)

List No: 1234.115

Page No: after 363

Series No: 118

Engraver or Printer: Ferguson, James ; Blunt, Edmund M. (Edmund March), 1770-1862 ; Whiting, H. L. ; Gilbert, S. A.

Published In: Historical and biographical atlas of the New Jersey coast. Proposed, arranged and illustrated by T.F. Rose. Surveys by H.C. Woolman. History and statistics by T.T. Price, M.D. Philadelphia, Woolman & Rose, 1878.

Publication Author: Rose, Theodore F.; Woolman, H. C.; Price, T. T.

Publication Date: 1878

Publication Reference: Phillips, 2141; LeGear Atlases of the United States, L2307; Phillips Maps of America, p. 492

Publication Note: This is an outstanding combination of maps, views, and historical text. It is in the "county atlas" style of the period, but the choice of area (the New Jersey sea coast spanning several counties) is unusual. Maps hand painted and printed in full color. Atlas is bound in quarter leather burgandy cloth covered boards with "Historical & biographical atlas of New Jersey Coast illustrated. Woolman & Rose, 1879."

Publication List No: 1234.000

Publication Type: State Atlas

Publication Maps: 44

Publication Height cm: 37

Publication Width cm: 31

Image No: 1234115

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