Nautical chart of America by Norie & Wilson
Klubbat för:
2 200 SEK
Estimate
2 000 SEK
Description
NORTH AMERICA. NORIE & WILSON. Chart of North America from Boston to Cape Look Out including New York, Delaware, Chesapeake &c. London, Norie & Wilson, 1893.
Engraved blue back coastal nautical chart, in 2 sheets, now joined, c. 870 x 1350 mm. With 7 inset maps, a.o. of New York and Boston.
Sheets 1 & 2. Boston to the Chesapeake &c. [title at bottom]. Sheets 1, 2 & 3. Boston to Savannah and St. Augustine [title at top] -- Sheets 2, 3 & 4. Philadelphia to Havana.
Rolled.
John Norie (1772-1843) was a hydrographer, chart publisher, teacher and author of navigation manuals. This preeminent cartographic firm exists today as Imray, Laurie, Norie & Wilson Ltd, still specializing in nautical charts.
Norie & Wilson were successors to Charles Wilson and were one of the most successful producers of blue-back sea-charts in the late 19th century, working for both the Admiralty and East India Company.
Provenance: Captain Olof Peter Reinhold Olsson (1853-1921), Råå fiskeläge.
Condition
Some folds, small tear to outer part Rolled.
Auktionsnummer:
901469
Date:
2021-04-19