A Series of Charts, with Sailing Directions, Embracing Surveys of the Farallones, entrance to the Bay of San Francisco, Bays of San Francisco and San Pablo, Straits of Carquines and Suisan Bay, Confluence and Deltic Branches of the Sacramento and San Joaq

RINGGOLD, Cadwalader (1802-1867).

Verlag: Washington: Jno. T. Towers, 1851.

Beschreibung

4to (11 x 7 4/8 inches). Lithograph frontispiece and 10 plates (some minor spotting), six folding charts (one or two tears). Original plum pictorial cloth, gilt, uncut (spine a bit faded, extremities just touched). Provenance: Contemporary presentation inscription from the author to the Hon. Reuben Robie (1843-1911), son of Democrat Congressman Reuben Robie of Bath, N.Y., on the title-page, with Robie's ink stamp on the front paste-down; the Polar bear bookplate of Daniel G. Volkmann Jr., Collection of California, on the front paste-down. "The surveys and charts. may be fairly and fully tested, by intelligent practical navigators." (Ringgold, from "The Preface") Second edition, second issue, FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, inscribed by the author on the title-page to Reuben Robie of Bath, New York. First published in the same year without plates or maps, and so popular that five editions were published by the following year in 1852. "During the years 1849 and 1850, when the tide of emigration was beyond all example, and when the magnificent expanse of waters graoned under the weight of commerce, the anchorage of San Francisco crowed with richly laden ships, all eager to transport their valuable cargoes to the mining region through the unexplored mazes of extensive bays and rivers, and while thousands of human beings were anxiously flocking thither, often in opne boats, ill suited to the exposed navigation leading to the interior, the enterprising citizens of San Francisco, in the face of these embarrassments, and in the absence of any authentic charts, saw the necessity of careful and immediate surveys" (Ringgold "Preface"). Braislin 1555; Cowan II, pp 533-534 note; Howes R303 (calling for 8 plates only); Kurutz 536c (also calling for 8 plates only); Norris 3732; Peters II., pp 112-113; Sabin 71425 (8 plates); Streeter Sale 2679 (11 plates as here). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 001998

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Titel: A Series of Charts, with Sailing Directions,...

Verlag: Washington: Jno. T. Towers, 1851.

Einband: Hardcover

Signiert: Signatur des Verfassers

Auflage: 1. Auflage