A chart of Nantucket Shoals surveyed by Capt. Paul Pinkham. Boston. Published & sold by John Norman, no.75, Newbury Street, Feb. 16th, 1791.

• Main Authors: Norman, William, -1807, Pinkham, Paul, 1736-1799
• Format: Map
• Language: unknown
• Published: Norman, William, -1807 1791
• Subjects: Nautical Charts; Anchorage; Barres; Belle Isle; Nantucket; Newfoundland
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Nautical chart representing the Nantucket Shoals. With one inset map: Plymouth Bay. Shows islands, cities, bodies of water, drainage, coastlines, bays, ports, anchorage, shoals, rocks and depths, given in fathoms. Features pictorial representations of buildings, including windmills and a light house. Includes rhumb lines, latitudinal and longitudinal lines, as well as a compass rose with north oriented toward top of sheet, a bar scale given in miles, and arrows referring to the directions of water currents. With historical text. Black and white engraving. Chart is 50 x 77 cm, on double sheet 54 x 83 cm. "According to Act of Congress." The American Pilot : Containing the navigation of the sea coast of North America, from the streights of Belle Isle to Cayenne, including the island and banks of Newfoundland, the West India islands, and all the islands on the coast … Published by William Norman in Boston, 1794. Folio; rebound in half calf over boards. Atlas comprised of eleven charts (including one ancillary chart and one inset chart). Charts show coastlines, cities, topography, vegetation, bodies of water, drainage, bays, ports, anchorage, shoals, rocks, directions of currents, and depths, given in fathoms. One chart features pictorial illustrations of ships and a sea monster; another provides descriptive notes with navigational instructions. Copper-plate engravings. The 1794 version of John and William Norman's American Pilot features foundational maps of Nantucket by Pinkham and the Carolinas by Daniel Dunbibin. This atlas is among the earliest to be published in the United States. In 1785, John Norman had proposed to the Massachusetts legislature to print a "Correct Set of Compleat Maps" depicting the coast from Newfoundland's Banks to the Gulf of Mexico. These maps were meant to align with the recent surveys conducted by the British Government, such as those by J.F.W. Des Barres, Samuel Holland, and others published in the Atlantic Neptune. Norman's proposal claimed that these drafts would be published on ...