Carte générale des découvertes de l'Amiral de Fonte representant la grande probabilité d'un passage au nord oust

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Carte générale des découvertes de l'Amiral de Fonte representant la grande probabilité d'un passage au nord oust Robert de Vaugondy, Didier, 1723-1786

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Hand-coloured copper-plate engraving. Depicts the Arctic Circle and northern territories of Siberia, Canada and Greenland. French engraving done by M. de Vaugondy published in Diderot's Encyclopedie. Original map in English, published in 1768 by Thomas Jeffreys in The Great Probability of a Northwest Passage written by Drage in London (Wagner, 614).

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Title	Carte générale des découvertes de l'Amiral de Fonte representant la grande probabilité d'un passage au nord oust
Alternate Title	par Thomas Jefferys géographe du roi á Londres 1768; General map of the discoveries of Admiral Fonte representing the great probability of a northwest passage, by Thomas Jefferys, geographer for the king of London 1768
Creator	Robert de Vaugondy, Didier, 1723-1786
Contributor	Jefferys, Thomas, -1771
Publisher	Paris : M. de Vaugondy
Date Issued	1772
Description	Hand-coloured copper-plate engraving. Depicts the Arctic Circle and northern territories of Siberia, Canada and Greenland. French engraving done by M. de Vaugondy published in Diderot's Encyclopedie. Original map in English, published in 1768 by Thomas Jeffreys in The Great Probability of a Northwest Passage written by Drage in London (Wagner, 614).
Extent	1 map ; 29 x 38 cm
Geographic Location	Arctic regions ; North America ; Siberia, Eastern (Russia)
Genre	Maps
Type	Still Image
File Format	image/jpeg
Language	French
Notes	Similar maps depicting the voyage of De Font are also included in the Andrew McCormick Collection. See maps mccormick_130, and mccormick_172. Diderot, Denis and Jean Le Rond Alembert. Suite du Recueil de planches, sur les sciences, les arts libéraux,et les arts méchaniques avec leur explication. Paris: Panckoucke, etc.; Amsterdam: M. M. Rey, 1777.
Identifier	mccormick_132
Collection	Andrew McCormick Maps and Prints
Source	Original Format: University of British Columbia. Library. Rare Books and Special Collections. Andrew McCormick Maps and Prints
Date Available	2013-04-01
Provider	Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights	Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy, or otherwise use these images must be obtained from Rare Books & Special Collections: http://rbsc.library.ubc.ca/
Catalogue Record	http://digitalcollections.library.ubc.ca/cdm/ref/collection/mccormick/id/140
AIPUUID	1b1386eb-5c52-48e0-b459-d41e2d5356e0
DOI	10.14288/1.0023436
Aggregated Source Repository	CONTENTdm

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Images provided for research and reference use only. Permission to publish, copy, or otherwise use these images must be obtained from Rare Books & Special Collections: http://rbsc.library.ubc.ca/

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