DEPOT OF NAVAL MAPS AND PLANS. Carte de...

DEPOT OF NAVAL MAPS AND PLANS. Carte de la côte occidentale d'Amérique comprise entre les iles de la Reine Charlotte et la port de San Diego. Paris, Dépôt des Cartes et Plans de la Marine, 1862. Printed in color Median fold, foxing, ink stain to left along fold. Lighthouses colored yellow and red at the time. Violet stamp at top of map: "Dépôt des Cartes de la Marine / A. Rabier /4, quai de Rive Neuve Marseille". 910 x 620 mm Map of the west coast of America between the Queen Charlotte Islands and the port of San Diego (English America, California). Drawn up according to the most recent English and American works. First edition (1862) of this rare, separately published map of the west coast of Canada and the United States, from the Queen Charlotte Islands in the north to the Port of San Diego in the south. Lighthouses are identified by colored dots (yellow and red). Includes twelve coastal profiles: Flattery Rocks; Cape Tillamook; Point Arago; Entrance to Sn. Francisco Bay; Port Catalina; Columbia River Entrance; Juan de Fuca Strait Entrance. Expert: Béatrice Loeb-Larocque