The Construction of Fort Sumter, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, Suspended by a Land Patent Covering Its Site Granted to That State to an Individual [caption title].
Washington, DC: House of Representatives, 23d Congress, 2d Session, 1835, Document No. 591. Extract from a larger work (“Military Affairs,” Vol. V, from a government serial set). Folio. Pp. 463-466 (only a fragment of the printed text is included here, with all maps). With three illustrations: (1) a large folding color lithographed map, “Map of Charleston Harbor, S.C.” (19 1/8 x 25 inches; Bowen & Co’s. Lith. Philade.), picturing the harbor from the Battery to Sullivan’s Island and from Mount Pleasant to James Island, with Fort Sumter in the middle; (2) a lithographed folding chart showing the location of Fort Sumter in the harbor, with a plan and sections of the fort’s foundations (25 x 12 ½ inches); and (3) a lithographed plate showing the relation of the islands to one another in a simple drawing (12 ½ x 8 inches). The extract tipped into plain cream wrappers. Several archival repairs in margins, else very good. Item #66056
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