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Carte Générale des Découvertes de l'Amiral de Fonte representiant la grande probabilitié d'un Passaga au Nord Ouest par Thomas Jefferys Geographe du Roi a Londres 1768

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Title: Carte Générale des Découvertes de l'Amiral de Fonte representiant la grande probabilitié d'un Passaga au Nord Ouest par Thomas Jefferys Geographe du Roi a Londres 1768
Creator: Robert de Vaugondy, Didier, 1723-1786, cartographer
Date Created and/or Issued: 1771
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Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Maps
Rights Information: For information on use of Digital Library materials, please see Library Rights and Permissions: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: Kashnor notes, "Includes the Polar regions from Siberia to Greenland, and southward as far as New Mexico, indicating not only the route of de Fonte, but also certain interesting Russian and Japanese discoveries up to 1741, including those on the coast of Alaska and British Columbia, though showing the fabrications of de Fonte. "Trimmed from upper right - Suppl. 8e. Carte. Atlas and publisher from McLaughlin and others. Prime meridian: Paris. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Marine leagues. Projection: Pseudocylindrical. Watermark: AM Herritte? 1778. Printing Process: Copper engraving.
Type: image
Format: image/jpeg
Extent: 1 map 30 x 38 cm., sheet 32 x 38 cm.
Identifier: 105:013 S
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll4/id/666
Language: French
French
Subject: Northwest Passage--Early works to 1800
Arctic regions--Maps--Early works to 1800
Pacific Coast (North America)--Maps--Early works to 1800
Time Period: 1768
Place: Pacific Ocean North Pacific Russia Siberia
E 130°
W 45°/N 80°
N 40°
Source: Huntington Rare Book Maps
Maps, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance: Purchased en bloc by HEH from the Museum Book Store, June 7, 1927.

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