St Marks to Galveston: Blunt 1846 [1857]

Title: St Marks to Galveston Author: E. & G. W. Blunt Date: 1846 [1857] Medium: Blueback sea chart (engraving backed on original blue manila paper, hand-colored marks highlighting various cities, ports, and sites) Condition: Good – toning, areas of surface dirt, creasing throughout, large area of discoloration left margin, minor cracks in top layer of paper in margins Inches: 40 x 26 [Paper] Centimeters: 101.6 x 66.04 [Paper] Product ID: 316067 Map of the Gulf Coast stretching from Matagorda Bay to Lake Pontchartrain. Includes a few inland details such as coastal marsh systems and the course of the Sabine and Mississippi Rivers. Along the coast appears data about water depth, currents, and magnetic variation, as well as a few annotations addressed to sailors. Map contains two inset maps in the upper left corner. The smaller, titled “Preliminary Sketch of Galveston Bar Harbour,” shows the mouth of Galveston Harbor between Galveston Island and the Bolivar Peninsula. To i