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An important original copper plate etched in part by James McNeill Whistler, one of two etchings undertaken during his brief employment at the U. S. Coast Survey, and the first of his etchings ever published. The plate depicts Anacapa Island, a mass of volcanic rock off the coast of southern California. James Abbott McNeill Whistler […]
![Compiled by W[alter] L. Nicholson / Lith. by Cha[rle]s G. Krebs, MAP OF THE STATE OF VIRGINIA Compiled from the best authorities and printed at the Coast Survey Office. Washington: United States Coast Survey, October 1864](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/BRM3216-Nicholson_Bache-State-of-Virginia-1864_lowres-e1547563762388-150x150.jpg)
An exceptionally detailed map of Virginia and West Virginia, prepared by the Coast Survey for the Union Army in October 1864. The Civil War had turned decisively in favor of the Union, with Grant besieging Lee in Petersburg, Virginia since June and Sherman capturing Atlanta in September. This was the finest available map of the […]
The second official map of New Jersey, compiled by William Kitchell to replace Thomas Gordon’s map of 1828. A spectacular, important and surprisingly scarce piece, not described in the cartographic literature until John Delaney’s Nova Caesaria (2014). State Geologist William Kitchell oversaw the compilation of the map from the finest available sources, in particular the findings of […]
![Drawn by H. Lindenkohl / Cha[rle]s G. Krebs Lith., HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE REBELLION. Washington: U. S. Coast Survey, ca July 20 1863.](https://bostonraremaps.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/BRM3916-Historical-Sketch-of-Rebellion-1863_lowres-scaled-e1631050242186-150x150.jpg)
A scarce and unusual 1863 persuasive map by the U.S. Coast Survey showing the progress of the Union’s so-called ” Anaconda Plan ” for winning the Civil War. As war with the Confederacy loomed in early 1861, Union leadership under General Winfield Scott drew up what came to be known as the Anaconda Plan. This […]