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Genuine antique U.S. Coast Survey charts and vintage Orcas Island, Washington maps


1853 Coast Survery Western coast of U.S.
(click to enlarge)

Map Title:
U.S. Coast Survey
Reconnaissance of the
Western coast of the United States
from
Gray's Harbor to the entrance
of Admiralty Inlet
[With 4 vignette engraved views: 1) Duncan's Rock, Tatoosh I. & Cape Flattery; 2) Flattery Rocks and White Rock; 3) Destruction Island; and 4) Sail Rock and Pt. Grenville]


Year of Publication: 1853

Size: 19 3/4 (from leftmost edge of fly-leaf) x 16 1/2 inches.


Type of print:
Original steel engraving on thin 19th century map/survey paper

Publisher:
U.S. Coast Survey Office

Condition: Good/Very Good, with folds and fly-leaf binding as issued; minor browning along fold lines, per usual; left border trimmed along binding edge below fly-leaf, as issued; minor wrinkles in corners where the map was held in place by mylar corners on foam-core for gallery display; typical fine line engraved details.


(to be shipped folded)


Sketch K Tillamook Bay to Canadian Boundary
(click to enlarge)

Map Title:
U.S. Coast Survey
Sketch K
Showing the progress of the Survey in
Section No. XI (Upper Sheet)
From Tillamook Bay to the Boundary
from 1850 to 1857


Year of Publication: 1857

Size: 20 1/2 (from leftmost edge of fly-leaf) x 27 inches.


Type of print:
Original steel engraving on thin 19th century map/survey paper

Publisher:
U.S. Coast Survey Office

Condition: Good, with folds and fly-leaf binding as issued; minor browning along fold lines, per usual; one tiny split at a fold intersection; left border trimmed along binding edge above and below fly-leaf; typical fine line engraved details.


(to be shipped folded)


Entrance to Umquah River Oregon
(click to enlarge)

Map Title:
U.S. Coast Survey
Preliminary Survey of the
Entrance to Umquah River
Oregon


Year of Publication: 1854

Size: 14 (from leftmost edge of fly-leaf) x 19 inches.


Type of print:
Original steel engraving on thin 19th century map/survey paper

Publisher:
U.S. Coast Survey Office

Condition: Good, with folds and fly-leaf binding as issued; minor browning along fold lines, per usual; left border trimmed along binding edge above fly-leaf.


(to be shipped folded)


Entrance to Umquah River Oregon
(click to enlarge)

Map Title:
U.S. Coast Survey
from Tillamook Bay to the Boundary

(California, Oregon, Washington, British Columbia)


Year of Publication: 1860

Size: (from leftmost edge of fly-leaf) 20.5 x 27 inches.


Type of print:
Original steel engraving on thin 19th century map/survey paper

Publisher:
U.S. Coast Survey Office

Condition: Very Good/Excellent, with folds and fly-leaf binding as issued; minor browning along fold lines, per usual; minor foxing


(to be shipped folded)


Port Gamble, Washington Territory
(click to enlarge)

Map Title:

U.S. Coast Survey
Reconnaissance of
Port Gamble
Washington Territory


Year of Publication: 1856

Size: 10 5/8 x 13 7/8 inches.


Type of print:
Engraving, with hand coloring

Publisher:
U.S. Coast Survey Office

Condition: Very Good/Excellent, with lower fold, as issued; binding holes/split at extreme top edge.


Blakely, Washington Territory
(click to enlarge)

Map Title:

U.S. Coast Survey
Reconnaissance of
Blakely Harbor
Washington Territory


Year of Publication: 1856

Size: 18 1/2 x 13 inches.


Type of print:
Engraving, with hand coloring

Publisher:
U.S. Coast Survey Office

Condition: Very Good/Excellent, with folds, as issued; one fox mark in left margin; lower left margin slightly trimmed, but very ample margin remains.

Dungeness Harbor, Washington Territory
(click to enlarge)

Map Title:

U.S. Coast Survey
Reconnaissance of
False Dungeness Harbor
and
Dungeness Harbor
Washington


Year of Publication: 1856

Size: 24 1/4 x 10 3/4 inches.


Type of print:
Engraving, with hand coloring

Publisher:
U.S. Coast Survey Office

Condition: Very Good/Excellent, with folds, as issued; crimp in lower left margin, not affecting image.


Bellingham Bay, Washington
(click to enlarge)

Map Title:

U.S. Coast Survey
Reconnaissance of
Bellingham Bay
Washington Ter.


Year of Publication: 1856

Size: 19 1/4 x 15 1/2 inches.


Type of print:
Engraving, with hand coloring

Publisher:
U.S. Coast Survey Office

Condition: Very Good/Excellent, with folds, as issued; blue watercolor paint spot in upper right, well outside of image area.


Swinomish Channel, Skagit county Washington 1891
(click to enlarge)
click here for more partial detail photos

Map Title:
Chart of Swinomish Slough,
Skagit County, Washington
showing proposed Channels and Dikes

[parts of Fidalgo Island, Whidby Island,
Swinomish Indian Reservation, Padilla Bay, etc.]


Year of Publication: 1891

Size: 20 x 38 inches.


Type of print:
Lithograph

Publisher:
U.S. Engineer Office

Condition: Very Good/Excellent, with folds, as issued; light browning and occasional splits along fold lines.


(to be shipped folded)


Orcas Island, Bicentennial of its Discovery 1790-1990
(click to enlarge)

Map Title:
Orcas Island, Bicentennial of its Discovery 1790-1990
Limited edition map by Philo Lund
(this is the last map available from edition of 650)


Year of Publication: 1990
Hand-signed/Numbered by Philo Lund (650/650)

 

Size: 24 x 19 inches.


Type of print:
Offset Lithograph

Publisher:
Philo Lund

Condition:
Excellent to Very Good
(slight corner damage)


 

Ye Old Map of Orcas Island
(click to enlarge)

Map Title:
Ye Old Map of Orcas Island
[A classic map of Orcas Island published by our founder
Fred T. Darvill. We still have a few maps from the original printing nearly 70 years ago!]


Year of Publication: 1946

Size: 20 x 16 inches


Type of print:
Color lithograph after engraving by F. Stanley Piper

Publisher: Fred T. Darvill

Condition:
Excellent


 

Ye Old Map of Orcas Island
(click to enlarge)

Map Title:
Ye Old Map of Orcas Island
[Same map as to left, but without color. From the original printing run in 1946.]


Year of Publication: 1946

Size: 20 x 16 inches


Type of print:
Lithograph after engraving by F. Stanley Piper

Publisher:
Fred T. Darvill

Condition:
Excellent

 

 

orcas hotel poster eagan
(click to enlarge)

Orcas Hotel
Circa 1904


Limited Edition poster (limited to 1200)
hand-signed and numbered by artist Laura Eagan
(1989)

Size: 25 x 19 inches


 

san juans magical islands eagan 1988
(click to enlarge)

The San Juans
Magical Islands


Limited Edition poster (limited to 2000)
hand-signed and numbered by artist Laura Eagan
(1988)

Size: 18 x 27 inches


 

vashon ferry orcas island landing gill 1981
(click to enlarge)

The Vashon Ferry
at Orcas Landing
(Orcas Island, WA)


Artist: CC Gill
(1981)

Size: 19 x 18.5 inches
photo colors are a little off, see print to the right for better color representation


$125

 

vashon ferry orcas island landing gill 1981
(click to enlarge)

The Vashon Ferry
at Orcas Landing
(Orcas Island, WA)


Artist: CC Gill
(1981)

Limited edition, handsigned by all of the Vashon ferry captains
and the artist. Limited to only 300 prints!

Size: 19 x 18.5 inches


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