Untitled chart of Boston Bay

by J. F. W. Samuel Holland Des Barres, publisher

$7,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

Among the earliest charts published by Des Barres were those relevant to the crisis in New England, as the War of Independence broke out. This chart depicts the coast of Massachusetts from Salem to Scituate Harbor, and includes the complicated hydrography of Boston Harbor, and the confluent rivers. A considerable amount of coastal topography is included, obviously relevant to warships. Fundamentally, a chart for navigators, it includes soundings and shoals, with particularly

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