A New And Accurate Chart Of The Bay Of Chesapeak Including The Delaware Bay With All The Shoals

by John Norman William Norman

$95,000 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

The first large-scale map of the Chesapeake region published in America. This map was first published as part of William Norman's 1794 edition of The American Pilot. This beautiful example is present here in the first state, with the St. Mapys for St. Marys reading in the title. This error was corrected for the 1798 and subsequent editions of the atlas. A magnificent undertaking early in the history of American mapmaking, this great chart is the centerpiece of the

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