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Carte générale des découvertes de l'Amiral de Fonte : et autres navigateurs espagnols, anglois et russes pour la recherche du passage à la Mer du Sud
Title
Carte générale des découvertes de l'Amiral de Fonte : et autres navigateurs espagnols, anglois et russes pour la recherche du passage à la Mer du Sud / par M. De l'Isle de l'Académie royale des Sciences &c. ; publiée a Paris en Septembre 1752.
Publication
[Livourne?] : [Didier Robert de Vaugondy], [1779]
Physical Description
1 map ; 28 x 36 cm
Cartographic Detail
Scale approximately 1:22,000,000. (E 137°00ʹ00ʺ--W 53°00ʹ00ʺ/N 80°00ʹ00ʺ--N 35°00ʹ00ʺ).
Local Notes
BEIN 23 1752A: Mounted on linen.
Notes
Title in center below top neat line.
Relief shown pictorially.
Shows routes of explorers in the north Pacific region, including northeastern Asia and the Pacific Northwest of North America.
"Suppl. 7e. Carte" above top right border.
Inset: Carte dressée sur la lettre de l'Amiral de Fonte / par l'Ecrivain de la Californie. -- Scale approximately 1:35,000,000 (W 143°--W 93° / N 70°--N 50°).
Variant: lacks numbers and engraver's name in lower margin.
"Issued by Robert de Vaugondy to illustrate the current views of the geography of the northwest in the supplement to Diderot's Encyclopedie"--Wagner.
Variant and related titles
Encyclopédie.
Format
Maps & GIS
Language
French
Added to Catalog
July 03, 2008
References
Wagner, H.R. Cartography of the northwest coast of America to the year 1800, II, 637 (map 7)
Wheat, C.I. Mapping the transmississippi West, 1540-1861, I, 131 and p. 141-142
Subjects
Genre/Form
Maps.
Also listed under
France Livourne.
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