U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
1885

Original antique nautical chart Cape Cod Bay and Provincetown Massachusetts

Coast Survey Chart # 10. Cape Cod Bay.

DESCRIPTION: Original rolled, antique U.S. Coast Survey Chart no. 10 of Cape Cod Bay with the Cape Cod Peninsula first published in 1872. Numerous locations from Duxbury to Pochet Island and aids to navigation are highlighted and/or annotated in manuscript pen and ink (e.g. Nauset Beach Beacons, Wood End Light) Includes Provincetown and Provincetown Harbor. Three inset coastal recognition views as seen from offshore.

This is a scarce, separately issued, rolled hydrographic chart of the Massachusetts Coast from 1872, not one of the common folded versions on thin paper from annual report of the U.S. Coast Survey to Congress. This edition issued 1880 by C.P. Patterson. Updates to aids-to-navigation date the print to 1885. The price of this chart when first issued was 40 cents. Electrotype copy #2 [1].

[1] Artifact of the electrotype reprographic technique to create a intaglio copy of the original hand-engraved copper plate, a process the U.S. Coast Survey adopted around 1850. As a soft medium, copper plates could only withstand print runs of perhaps 200 copies before the plates wore down. To enable larger print runs, a mold of the original plate was created in wax or another soft medium. Then, using an electro-chemical process ( electrotyping ), the mold was coated with a metal layer, typically copper. Printers were then able to produce intaglio output from the new electrotype copper copy, while preserving the original hand-engraved plate.

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CREATOR: U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey

PUBLICATION DATE: 1885

GEOGRAPHIC AREA: United States

BODY OF WATER: Cape Cod Bay

CONDITION: Very Good.  Clean. No Folds! On heavy paper with no holes, stains or other issues. Manuscript enhancements and notes. Very wide margins. Evident platemark and printers' ink residue.

COLORING: None

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SIZE: 39 " x 30 "

ITEM PHYSICAL LOCATION: 1403

PRICE: $850

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