A new and accurate chart of the Bay of Chesapeak including Delaware Bay with all the shoals, channels, islands, entrances, soundings, & sailing marks as far as the navigable part of the rivers Patowmack Patapsco & N. East . Printed & sold by W. Norman at his shop no.75 Newbury Street.
Nautical chart representing Bay of Chesapeak [Chesapeake Bay] and Delaware Bay. Shows state boundaries, islands, cities, bodies of water, drainage, coastlines, bays, ports, shoals, and depths, given in fathoms. Includes rhumb lines, latitudinal and longitudinal lines, bar scale of miles and leagues,...
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Norman, William, -1807
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| Summary: | Nautical chart representing Bay of Chesapeak [Chesapeake Bay] and Delaware Bay. Shows state boundaries, islands, cities, bodies of water, drainage, coastlines, bays, ports, shoals, and depths, given in fathoms. Includes rhumb lines, latitudinal and longitudinal lines, bar scale of miles and leagues, as well as a compass rose with north oriented toward top of sheet. Descriptive text throughout, for instance: Coarse red & white sand with black specks & broken shells. With tables, including: A tide table for Delaware Bay and River. Black and white engraving. "Certificate. I have carefully compared this chart with the originals and find it an accurate copy, and though the latitudes of places near the sources of some of the rivers are a few minutes too great, yet the general courses &c. are as true as any chart now extant, and the largeness of the scale gives it the preference. Osgood Carleton." Chart is 104 x 84 cm, on fold-out sheet 105 x 85 cm. 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" ... |
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