Engraved chart. 63.5x98 cm (25x38½"), backed with blue paper (i.e. bluebacked chart).
This is the eastern sheet only, it extends west just beyond the mouth of the Mississippi to Barataria Bays; another sheet, not present here, carries the coast to Galveston. With inset of Mobile Bay. Light houses, noted by F.L. (fixed light) and R.L. (revolving light), are indicated by red dots. Scale of the chart is about 10 miles to an inch. Warren Heckrotte notes: "There have been numerous additions in comparison to my copy of the 1849 issue. New Orleans is now off the chart."
Full title: The North Coast of the Gulf of Mexico, From St. Marks to Galveston. E. & G.W. Blunt. No 179 Water Street, New York, S.E. Corner of Burling Slip. 1844. Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1842 by W & G.W. Blunt, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the Southern District of New York. Additions to 1864, including the Surveys of Comr. Powell, Lt. Simmes, & Profr. Coffin, U.S. Navy. Inset: Bar & Entrance of Mobile Bay, surveyed under the direction of Major J. Kearney; Topogl. Engr.
Provenance: RIBA auction, 6/13/92
References: Streeter, Bib of Texas, 1408 for 1842 issue. He notes the 1844 and 1851 issues, but not the 1849 and 1864 issues. Phillips, Maps, p 423. Guthorn,, notes editions of 1842, '51, '57. For the western sheet, which extends to Galveston, Guthorn lists one state only, 1851.
Condition:
Two inch tear from top edges, some modest soiling, two vertical creases, very good.