A very rare one page chart of South Carolina and Georgia by John Norman. It bears a large inset lower right of the approaches to Charleston. The mantle of charting the American coastline so effectively carried by the British ended with the Revolutionary War. The first post-Revolutionary American marine atlas was published in Boston by Matthew Clark in 1790. Two of these nine charts were engraved by John Norman. The noted cartographer Osgood Carleton certified the maps for accuracy. The experience encouraged Carleton and Norman to begin their own project which was published as “The American Pilot” in Boston, 1791. Carleton provided the cartography, Norman engraved the plates and published the resulting work. He re-issued it in 1792 and again in 1794, essentially unaltered at which point his son William took over. William issued the atlas in 1796 and 1803 introducing two new charts.

The chart extends from St. John’s Island in South Carolina to appropriately St. John’s River in Florida. This is an example of the second state of three with the alteration to the inset lower right of “Shute’s Folly” in the inset corrected to “Shutes Folly”. Guthorn “Eighteenth Century Shore and Harbour Charts Printed in America”, The Map Collector 12 pp. 24-31; Guthorn “United States Coastal Charts 1783-1861” pp. 7-8; Ristow “American Maps and Mapmakers” pp. 224-7; Wheat & Brun #607 2nd state.