Steels New Chart Of The Coast Of Brazil Including A Plan Of Rio Janeiro Blue Backed Engraved

by War Of 1812 David Conner Early Owner

$9,500 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller · No longer available

Blue-backed sea chart. Insets of the harbor of Rio, the Bay of All Saints and the Island of Fernand Noronha. Manuscript annotations by Conner plotting the course of the USS Hornet in the War of 1812. Approx. 31 x 70 inches. Tape repairs on verso, some staining. Manuscript note on verso by Philip Syng Physick Conner. Conner, Philip Syng Physick. The Hornet's Sting and Wing in The New England Magazine, Vol. XXIII, No. 3 Nov. 1900 , pp. 268-274. Item #367005

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