Subject: Alaska
Period: 1797 (circa)
Publication: Voyage autour du Monde…Atlas
Color: Black & White
Size:
27 x 19.5 inches
68.6 x 49.5 cm
This large-scale chart covers a portions of today's Prince of Wales, San Fernando, Lulu, Noyes, Baker, and Suemez islands in the Prince of Wales - Outer Ketchikan area. Excellent detail along coastlines plus scores of soundings in bays and harbors. Simple compass rose with arrow indicating north.
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Condition: A
Nice impression on thick hand laid paper with two large watermarks - one is a stone tower. Folding, as issued. Trace of easily erased offsetting and two insignificant spots, still very good.