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GA102 - E. & G. W. BLUNT "Tybee Bay and Savannah River reduced from the surveys of Lt. Wilkes & others." N.Y. 1841. 7½X9½. Colored. Shows Turtle Is., Dawfuskie Is., Hilton Head Is., Tybee Is., Long Is., Calibogue Sound. Very detailed soundings, bottoms, channels and rivers. 

GA103 - E. & G. W. Blunt "Sapello Island - Doboy Sound." N.Y. 1854. 7½X9¼. Colored. Shows Pelican Shoals. Detailed soundings in Doboy Sound. Includes Marsh Is. and creeks and navigational notes. 

GA105 - U. S. COAST SURVEY "Reconnaissance of Romerly Marshes, Georgia." Wash. D. C. 1855. 16X28½, B/W. Chart shows soundings in the Wilmington River and throughout the marshes. Notes Old Romerly Marsh Channel. Little Warsaw Is. Includes navigational notes. (Chart has some age toning down one fold, otherwise good.)

GA116 - U. S. COAST SURVEY “St. Catherine's Sound. Georgia.” Wash. D.C. 1867. B/W. 22X29. Chart shows the Sound & the North Newport River, Walbur Creek, Cedar Creek, the Medway River, Ossabaw Island, Bear River & depicts thousands of depth soundings throughout the region. The chart includes detailed navigational notes on tides & soundings & abbreviations of bottoms. This is a fine chart in very good condition.

GA117 - E. & G. W. BLUNT “Savannah River. From It's Mouth to the City of Savannah by John Le Conte. Top. Eng. 1827.” New York. 1827. B/W/ 7X16. Finely engraved chart of the River from Savannah & Forts Hayne & Jackson to Fig, Gibbet, Jones & Long Islands where it continues to Cock Spur & Tybee Islands. A lighthouse is indicated on Tybee Island, above low water areas near the entrance to the incoming channels. Depth soundings are noted along the river's length, which is full of shoals & sandbars along the shore & around the islands. A compass pointer is located on the chart as an aid to mariners navigating the area. Published by E. & G. W. Blunt for the American Coast Pilot in 1827, the chart was engraved by William Hooker. (The chart was engraved on a fine paper stock & is in good condition with old folds pressed flat.)

GA118 - U. S. COAST SURVEY “Preliminary Chart of St. Simon's Sound & Brunswick Harbor. Georgia.” Wash. D.C. 1856. Colored. 17X24. Excellent coastal chart shows St. Simon's Island & Sound, Jekyl Island, Buzzards Roost Island, Colonel's Island & Blythe Island. Depicts hundreds of depth soundings, & indicates courses for navigators entering the area from offshore & includes sailing directions for St. Simon's Sound & Brunswick Harbor. A finely drawn mid 19th century government chart.

GA119 - U. S. TOPOGRAPHICAL BUREAU “Map of the Country Embracing the Various Routes Surveyed for the Western & Atlantic Rail Road of Georgia. Under the Direction of Lieut. Col. S. H. Long. Chief Engineer.” Wash. D.C. 1837. B/W. 8X21½. This horizontal map shows the proposed lines of survey for the establishment of a railroad system in Georgia's northwestern regions. The area covered is from the Chattahoochee River north through the counties of Forsyth, Hebokee, Cass, Murray, Gilmer & Walker. In 1837 the U. S. Topographical Engineers were busy laying out surveys for the railroads through all the eastern states with the intent to connect all the major cities & towns. This railroad plan for northwestern Georgia would ultimately connect that part of the state with Atlanta & all the coastal regions to the south. A fine survey.

GA120 - JOHNSON & WARD “Johnson's Georgia & Alabama.” NY. 1861. Colored. 17X24. Striking map of both States with counties in different colors, shows Georgia's east coast down to it's border with Florida & Florida's Gulf Coast region, & includes Georgia's west coast border with Alabama depicting Mobile Bay & the offshore islands to Chandeleur Bay & part of Mississippi. In top left is a sketch of Tuscaloosa Observatory & in top right is a view of a rice mill on the Savannah River. An attractive & decorative map.

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