Egmont Harbour modern Jeddore Harbour, Nova Scotia

by J. F W. Des Barres

$2,500 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books · No longer available

A very fine sea chart and view of Egmont, now called Jeddore Harbour, from 'The Atlantic Neptune,' the first British sea atlas of her North American colonies This is a finely presented and highly detailed chart of what is now known as Jeddore Harbour, near Halifax. The bay, seven miles long and three miles wide, is captured in a cartographic composition of great topographical and hydrographical detail, and is further embellished by a roundel containing a mariner's view of the

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