Oct 10, 2002 - Sale 1946

Sale 1946 - Lot 392

Price Realized: $ 69
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 100 - $ 150
FIRST COAST SURVEY UNITED STATES. Message from the President of the United States . . . Relative to the Measures which have been taken to Complete an Accurate Survey of the Coast of the United States.<> 10 pages, plus 3 folding tables. 3to, disbound; a bit browned; ex-library, with an ink stamp on the title. Washington, 1816

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Although a survey of the U.S. coast had been ordered by Congress in 1807, the outbreak of the War of 1812 delayed the purchase of equipment for the survey, which did not begin until 1816. This report lists the equipment purchased and the expenses.<