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Lithograph chart. On thick paper with no folds. 50.5x76.2 cm. (19¾x30").

Ringgold's impressive chart with great detail of the Bay and Bay Area.

Full title: General Chart | Embracing Surveys of the | Farralones Entrance to the Bay of San Francisco | Bays of San Francisco and San Pablo | Straits of Carquines and Suisun Bay | and the | Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers | to the Cities of | Sacramento and San Joaquin | Califoria | By | Cadwalader Ringgold | Commander, U.S. Navy | 1850 || Constructed, Projected and Drawn by Fred D. Stuart, Hydrographer, late of the U.S. Ex.Ex.  Assisted by Chas. Everett Jr. Draughtman  || Executed at the request of the under signed citizens of the State of California [54 names] and Inscribed to Willaim H. Aspinwall Esq. City of New York || Distanced by the Rivers from San Francisco [table] || [ lower left margin} Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1851 by Cadwalader Ringgold in the Clerk's office of the District Court of the United States for the District of Columbia

Provenance: Swanns, 6/11/09