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Auction 144, Lot 44

"Isle of Sable ", Blunt, Edmund

Subject: Sable Island, Canada

Period: 1827 (dated)

Publication: American Coast Pilot

Color: Hand Color

Size:
7 x 4 inches
17.8 x 10.2 cm
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Detailed small coastal chart with a shipboard view of the eastern end of the island. It shows the island off the coast of Nova Scotia, known as the Graveyard of the Atlantic because of the more than 350 recorded shipwrecks since 1583.

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Condition: A

Estimate: $70 - $90

Sold for: $50

Closed on 4/3/2013

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