Buzzards Bay and Vineyard Sound.

by Joseph Frederick Wallet Des Barres, Samuel Holland

$28,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Fine chart depicting the waters between New Bedford and Martha's Vineyard. Buzzards Bay and the Vineyard Sound including the Elizabeth Islands and the western half of Martha's Vineyard. Showing much more on-shore information than is typical for a Des Barres chart, there are details of property boundaries, structures, even a road from Menemshaw Pond to Tisbury. Native names throughout remain largely unchanged today. Joseph Des Barres was born in Switzerland in 1721 and

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