America.- San Francisco.- Port Jackson, Australia.- House of Commons. Report of the Commissioners upon the subject of Harbours of Refuge [with five additional manuscript maps], illustrations and folding maps as called for, but with five manuscript harbour maps by an unidentified hand initialled 'R.F.B', later inserted into report, including 'Brest. Roads &c. reduced from the Admiralty Chart of 1875', 'Reduced to 1/3 from the Admiralty Chart of 1875, Toulon Harbour... corrected to May 1875', 'The Harbour of San Francisco from the United States Survey 1856...', 'Port Jackson... corrections to Oct. 1874, Sept 1878', and 'Anchorage Space Protected by the Cherbourg Breakwater', pen and inks, wash, pencil, on thin wove papers, various sizes between approx. 440 x 270 mm (17 1/4 10 5/8 in) and 380 x 550 mm (15 x 21 3/4 in), folding with some associated small nicks and tears, handling creases, minor surface dirt, ex-library stamps of 'Worthing Public Library' throughout and with their bookplate, green cloth covered boards, spine with library numbering, slightly worn, 4to, [circa 1845-1878]

⁂ Unique collection of manuscript maps including the harbours of San Francisco and Sydney, Australia.