Banche, A.D. U.S. Coast Survey Preliminary Sketch of Galveston Bay Texas. U.S. Coastal Survey, 1858. 05_04_23 Lewis was a prominent lawyer

Lewis was a prominent lawyer and a member of the Consultation and the General Council of the provisional government

and all that survives of the original surveyor's charts which became the source material for the celebrated "Fairfax" map of Virginia: "THE COURSES OF THE RIVERS RAPPAHANNOCK AND POTOWMACK IN VIRGINIA

reflecting both the natural and human-made landscape of the area during that period

Ferdinand Verbiest was a Jesuit missionary who served in China during the seventeenth century

Two sheets joined (25 x 17 6/8 inches to the neatline

Banche, A.D. U.S. Coast Survey Preliminary Sketch of Galveston Bay Texas. U.S. Coastal Survey, 1858. 05_04_23 Lewis was a prominent lawyerBanche, A. D. U. S. Coast Survey Preliminary Sketch of Galveston Bay Texas U. S. Coastal Survey, 1858 21 1 2 x 17 3 4 inches