An attractive hand colored 1853 U.S. Coast Survey triangulation chart or map of San Francisco Bay, California.  Shows the progress of the survey work in this area by date annotated sections.  Shows points such as California City, San Quentin, San Francisco, Presidio Hill and Lime Point Bluff, among others.  Details the grid layout of San Francisco city. The hand color work on this beautiful map is exceptionally well done.   This map was compiled under the direction of A. D. Bache, Superintendent of the Survey of the Coast of the United States and one of the most influential American cartographers of the 19th century.
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1852 (dated)
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