NORTH CAROLINA AND SOUTH CAROLINA. Drawn by A. Lindenkohl. Chas. G. Krebs, lith.
[Washington, DC]: U. S. Coast Survey, A.D. Bache, Supdt. 1865. Broadside lithographed map, 25 ½ x 35 ½ inches, sectioned and laid down on linen. Minutely detailed map of the two states, printing to the north on a line from Wilkesboro to Franklinton, starting between Charleston and Savannah to the south, and to Plymouth and Morehead City in the east, and to Pendleton and Mt. Pisgah in the west; included are cities to the smallest villages and crossroads, rivers to the smallest creeks, swamps, lakes, ponds, islands, and other physical features, mountains in hachure, railroad lines marked in red, etc. “Authorities” listed under title include “U.S. Coast Survey Topographical Maps,” “Mills’ Atlas of South Carolina,” et al., and the statement “The mountains and interior valleys of North Carolina are principally from a map furnished by Prof. Arnold Guyot.” Civil War Maps 305a.4: “State names, boundaries, and railroads are overprinted in red.” Phillips, p. 619. Laney & Wood 290 (“Scale: 1 inch = 10 miles”). Similar maps for other areas of the south were produced during the last years of the war by the Coast Survey. Folded into marbled boards (rubbed, edges bumped), printed paper label on upper board (“Map of / North Carolina / and S. Car.” Some foxing, but a very good copy. Item #68492
Price: $3,750.00