Chart of Port Shediack & Cocagne New Brunswick
$2,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books
A meticulous survey of a portion of the eastern coast of New Brunswick on the Northumberland Straits with soundings and topographical detailing. This chart, which appeared in Volume II of The Atlantic Neptune, was part of the surveying work conducted by Des Barres himself in the late 1760s and early 1770s. The first state was issued in 1776; this enhanced second state appeared in 1779. Des Barres, of Swiss-Huguenot extraction, studied under the great mathematician Daniel
- Printing: first
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