U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey
1883

Pacific Coast Pilot Alaska Part I

Pacific Coast Pilot. Alaska. Part I. Coast from Dixon Entrance to Yakutat Bay with the Inland Passage.

DESCRIPTION: U.S. Coast Pilot of a portion of the Alaskan coast c 1883. An increasingly scarce late 19th century volume. With 16 folding lithographed charts and 13 folding sheets of views on thin onion-skin type paper all in excellent nearly pristine condition. Total of 331 pages includes over 200 pages of detailed sailing directions, several indexes, notes on name pronunciation, meteorological tables and sailing distances.

Manuscript fly page inscription dated July 22, 1887 by Edwin H. Abbot, Milwaukee, Wis. Original half leather with marbled boards and gold embossed spine. Boards cleanly detached but still present. U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. J.E. Hilgard, Superintendent. Washington 1883.

CREATOR: U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey

PUBLICATION DATE: 1883

GEOGRAPHIC AREA: United States

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CONDITION: Good.  Extremely clean and bright with all folding charts and views neatly folded. Front and back cover are detached, the only flaw with this otherwise intact volume.

COLORING: Two-color lithograped.

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SIZE: 8 " x 12 "

ITEM PHYSICAL LOCATION: 0

PRICE: $495

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