Nov 18, 2008 - Sale 2163

Sale 2163 - Lot 144

Price Realized: $ 720
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
(GREAT LAKES.) [Thompson, Thomas S.] Thompson's Coast Pilot for the Upper Lakes. 8vo, original pictorial boards, wrinkled and soiled but complete, rebacked; original endpapers, some marginal browning and minor dampstaining; business card of William Moore glued to front pastedown. [15] pages of maritime ads dated 1869, mostly from Detroit, and ad for Detroit City Dry Dock laid down on rear pastedown. With errata slip. Detroit, 1869

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Fifth edition of the standard navigational work on the Great Lakes, with detailed information on harbor channels, lighthouses, sailing distances, anchorages, and more.