Core Sound and Straits

by North Carolina

$275 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

A rare original coastal survey of Outer Banks region including Core Bank, Shack, Beaufort, Atlantic Beach, Fort Macon, and a continuation of Core Sound in an inset map in the top right section of the map featuring Cedar Island and Pamlico Sound. Established by President Thomas Jefferson in 1807 as the Survey of the Coast, the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey was the United States' first civilian scientific agency. This agency has followed its mission to survey the U.S.

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