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Auction 199, Lot 157
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"The Coast of the United States Sheet No. 2 from Cape Lookout to Cape Carnaveral from the U.S. Coast Surveys", Blunt, Edmund

Subject: Southeastern United States

Period: 1865 (dated)

Publication:

Color: Black & White

Size:
31.1 x 46.5 inches
79 x 118.1 cm
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This large-scale blueback chart extends from Cape Hatteras, North Carolina to Cape Canaveral, Florida. There is excellent navigational detail with hundreds of soundings, rocks, shoals, currents, lighthouses and more. Created in 1860 with additions to 1865. Backed with stiff blue paper and the original printed paper label on verso. Sold by C.H. Farley in Portland, Maine.

References:

Condition: B+

On a mostly clean sheet with some light creasing, a bit of foxing, and a 2.5" repaired edge tear at bottom right. The gray shadows at the top and bottom of the image are caused by our scanner and are not present on the physical map.

Estimate: $400 - $475

Sold for: $300

Closed on 9/11/2024

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