Galveston Entrance Texas: Bache 1853

Title: Galveston Entrance Texas Author: A. D. Bache Date: 1853 Medium: Hand-colored engraving Condition: Very Good Plus - margin loss in lower left Inches: 19 x 15 1/2 [Paper] Centimeters: 48.26 x 39.37 [Paper] Product ID: 102346  (Sketch I No. 3) Galveston Entrance Texas From a Trigonometrical Survey Under the direction of A. D. Bache Superintendent of the Survey of the Coast of the United States Triangulation by R. H. Fauntleroy and J. S. Williams Assistants. Topography by J. M. Wampler Sub-Asst. Hydrography by the parties under the command of T. A. Craves & A. S. Baldwin Lieuts. U. S. Navy Published in 1853 Scale 1/40,000 Map of the entrance to Galveston Bay, Texas showing the city of Galveston and part of the island, Pelican Island, Pelican Spit, and part of Bolivar Point. Includes data regarding currents, tides, and geographic coordinates, as well as instructions for sailors. Surveyor, scientist, and pioneering oceanographer A. D. Bache (1806-1867) served as t