Collection: Osher Collection

Name: Carte Generale des Descouvertes de l'Amiral de Fonte representant la grande probabilite d'un Passage au Nord Ouest par Thomas Jefferys Geographe du Roi a Londres 1768

Barcode: 751

Image Number: 751.0001

Creator: Jefferys, Thomas, 1710-1771

Printmaker: Robert de Vaugondy, Didier, 1723-1786

From Atlas: No

Notes: Note: "Cette Carte a ete traduite par M de Vaugondy et gravee a Paris en 1772."

Title Translation: General Map of the Discoveries of the Admiral de Fonte representing the Great Probability of a Passage to the North West by Thomas Jefferys Geographer of the King in London 1768

Brief Description: Map centered on the Bering Strait and showing adjacent lands. The map shows the Juan de Fuca Strait creating a link between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.

Physical Description: 1 map: uncolored, illustrated

Translator: Robert de Vaugondy, Didier, 1723-1786

Date/Date Range Produced: 1772

Date/Date Range Published: 1772

Language: French

Region Depicted: AlaskaArctic OceanArctic regionsArizonaCaliforniaCanadaColoradoGreenlandIdahoMontanaNevadaNew MexicoNorth PoleNorthwest PassageOregonRussiaUtahWyoming

Map Type: Geographical

Dimensions: 29 x 36 cm.

Printing Process: Engraving

Printing Technique: Copper

Material Type: Paper

Accession Number: OS-1768-1

Donor: Osher

Subjects: AlaskaArctic OceanArctic regionsBering StraitCanadaExploration and discoveryFuentes, Bartolome? de, active 17th centuryGreenlandJuan de Fuca, Strait of (B.C. and Wash.)Maps--Early works to 1800North PoleNorthwest PassagePacific and Mountain StatesRussia

Permanent URL: https://oshermaps.org/map/751.0001