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![[Adolph and Henryt Lindenkohl], SKETCH OF PORTIONS OF SEA COAST OF SOUTH CAROLINA AND GEORGIA. [Washington, D.C.]: United States Coast Survey, 1863.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/BRM3917-USCS-South-Carolina-and-Georgia_low-resolution-scaled-e1689705643608-150x150.jpg)
Very rare map of the coasts of South Carolina and Georgia issued by the U.S. Coast Survey in 1863, no doubt for use in the Union blockade of the Confederate coast. Background As war with the Confederacy loomed in early 1861, Union leadership under General Winfield Scott drew up what came to be known as the […]
![Anonymous, [Untitled plan docketed “Fort Moultrie” on verso.] [Charleston, early 1861-ca. 1863?]](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/BRM1335-Fort-Moultrie-ms_edited-scaled-e1665587791271-150x150.jpg)
A remarkably detailed plan of Fort Moultrie in Charleston Harbor, likely dating to the Secession Crisis or soon thereafter. The first Fort Moultrie (originally Fort Sullivan) was constructed of palmetto logs on the southern end of Sullivan’s Island in early 1776 to command the entrance to Charleston Harbor. Later that year this first, crude structure […]
A trove of information, this chart includes immensely detailed soundings; navigational hazards; navigational aids such as lighthouses and light ships; and sailing directions. Also provided is detailed topographical and cartographical information on the adjacent coastal regions, at times extending well inland. An earlier version of this chart printed on thin paper were bound in the Report […]
One of the finest charts of the southern coastline available to British mariners during the Revolution. The 25 miles of coast from Georgia’s Savannah River to Port Royal Sound, North Carolina was of great strategic import, encompassing as it did the superb harbor at Port Royal and the approaches to the city of Savannah. At […]
![Engraved from an Indian Draught by T[homas] Kitchin, A New MAP of the CHEROKEE NATION with the Names of the Towns & Rivers… London, 1760.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/BRM4449-Kitchin-Cherokee-Nation-1760-150x150.jpg)
A scarce and significant map of the Cherokee Nation at the end of the French and Indian War, said to be based on “an Indian Draught”. The map depicts the area bounded by the Hiwassee River (labeled “A Branch of Mississipi R.”), the Little Tennessee River (“Cherokees or Hogohegee R.”) and the headwaters of the […]
![Eman[uel] Bowen, Geographer to his Majesty, A NEW MAP of Georgia, with Part of CAROLINA, FLORIDA and LOUISIANA. Drawn from Original Draughts, assisted by the most approved Maps and Charts. [London: Thomas Woodward et al., 1748].](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/BRM3756-Bowen-New-Map-of-Georgia-1737_lowres-scaled-e1615389846787-150x150.jpg)
An early, important English map of the Georgia colony, chartered in 1732, here depicted with its borders extending to the Mississippi River and presumably on to the Pacific, although actual physical settlement was then limited to a narrow band along the Atlantic coast. The original charters of the English colonies in North America established boundaries […]