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Pilot chart of the coast of Brazil

Title: Pilot chart of the coast of Brazil / by Lieut. M.F. Maury, U.S. Navy, National Observatory, Washington ; eng. by Sherman & Smith, N.Y.
Author: Maury, Matthew Fontaine, 1806-1873
Publication: [Washington, D.C.] : United States Hydrographical Office, 1849.

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Description

1 map; 76 x 62 cm

Alternative Title

Coast of Brazil

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Genre/Form

Note

Shows prevailing wind direction by month.
Includes note signed by M.F. Maury.
The pilot charts of Maury are described in "The wind and current chart series produced by Matthew Fontaine Maury," by Marc I. Pinsel, in Navigation : Journal of the Institute of Navigation, v. 28, no. 2 (Summer, 1981), p. 123-137.

Call Number

Map Div. 11-523

OCLC

890603975

Author

Maury, Matthew Fontaine, 1806-1873, cartographer.

Title

Pilot chart of the coast of Brazil / by Lieut. M.F. Maury, U.S. Navy, National Observatory, Washington ; eng. by Sherman & Smith, N.Y.

Publisher

[Washington, D.C.] : United States Hydrographical Office, 1849.

Cartographic Data

Scale approximately 1:3,500,000 (W 39°--W 29°/S 1°--S 25°).

Type of Content

cartographic image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

sheet

Local Note

NYPL Map Div. copy mounted on cloth; has manuscript note in ink on verso (on mounting cloth): Pilot chart coast of Brazil.

Place of Publication

United States District of Columbia Washington

Added Author

Sherman & Smith, engraver.

United States. Hydrographic Office, issuing body.

United States Naval Observatory.

Research Call Number

Map Div. 11-523 [rolled]