Report of the Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, Showing the Progress of the Survey During the Year 1867

Author: Benjamin Peirce (1809-1880)

Year: 1869

Publisher: Government Printing Office

Place: Washington, DC

Description:

xii+334 pages with 27 folding charts, plates, tables, appendixes and index. Royal quarto (11¼ x 8¼") bound in original publisher's brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine. All maps and plates present, numbered 1-28, lacking no. 19, as published. First edition.

The Report of the Superintendent of the United States Coast Survey, Showing the Progress of the Survey During the Year 1867 is a historical document detailing the U.S. Coast Survey's activities and findings in 1867, originally published in 1869 by the Government Printing Office. It was prepared under the supervision of Superintendent Benjamin Pierce and likely contains information on coastal mapping, soundings, lighthouse locations, and tidal observations, with some versions including various maps and charts.

In this important volume of the Coast Survey, covering surveys the year of the Alaska purchase by the United States, and containing, as Appendix No. 18, "Report of Assistant George Davidson Relative to the Resources and the Coast Features of Alaska Territory," forming what may be considered the first Alaska Coast Pilot issued by the Survey. Four of the charts relate to Alaska: Alaska; Sitka Harbor; St. Paul, Kadiak Island; and Illiouliouk and Captain's Harbors, Unalaska Island.

Condition: Rubbing and fading to boards with fraying at spine and discoloration to top of panels, corners bumped and rubbed; starting at hinges with toning and spotting to endpapers and light spotting throughout, slight tears and fraying to maps though all complete else good to very good.