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Title: Carte Réduite du Detroit de Davids Faite ay Depost des Cartes Plans et Journaux de la Marine Par Ordre de M le Duc de Choiseul Colonel Genéral des Suisses et Grisons, Ministre de la Guerre et de la Marine. Par le S. Bellin Ingenieur de la Marine
Creator: Bellin, Jacques Nicolas, 1703-1772, cartographer
Contributor: Bellin, Jacques Nicholas, 1703-1772
Kashnor, Leon, 1880-1955, seller
Museum Book Store
Date Created and/or Issued: 1765
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, " Bellin states that the chart is for the use of whalers, and that he has taken it partly from Captain Feykes' chart, and from his own chart of the northern Seas, issued in 1751. It has the soundings around Disco Bay, and shows the opposite coast, from Capes Walshingham, Dyers and Bedford." Prime meridian: Paris. Relief: pictorial. Projection: Mercator. Watermark: Crowned two headed bird. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Cartouche. Verso Text: MS note: 234.
Extent: 1 map ; 55 x 87 cm., sheet 60 x 91 cm.
Identifier: 093:234 M
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll4/id/9905
Language: French
French
Time Period: 1765
Place: Arctic Region
Davis Strait
Greenland
Disko Island
Northwest Passage
W 70°
W 50°/N 73°
N 67°
Source: Huntington Rare Book Maps
Maps, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance: Purchased en bloc by HEH from the Museum Book Store, April, 1924.

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