Collection: Osher Collection

Name: Carte Generale des Decouvertes de l'Amiral de Fonte, et autres Navigateurs Espagnols, Anglois et Russes pour la recherche du Passage la Mer du Sud. Par M. de L'Isle de l'Academie Royale des Sciences & c. publiee a Paris en Septembre 1752.

Barcode: 764

Image Number: 764.0001

Creator: L'Isle, Joseph Nicolas de, 1688-1768Robert de Vaugondy, Didier, 1723-1786

From Atlas: No

Publishing Location: Paris

Notes: Suppl. 7e. carte upper right hand corner of map. This is one of ten maps which appeared in a supplement of the Encyclopedie ou dictionnaire raisson? des sciences, des arts et des m?tiers. The supplement was published by Charles-Joseph Panckouke.

Title Translation: General Map of the Discoveries of the Admiral de Fonte, and other Spanish, English and Russian Navigators for the search of the Passage to the South Sea. By M. de L'Isle of the Royal Academy of Sciences & c. Published in Paris in September 1752.

Brief Description: Map of the Bering Sea and North Pacific Ocean showing the adjacent areas of Russia and North America. The map includes the routes of various explorers and historical notes.

Physical Description: 1 map: illustrated

Date/Date Range Produced: 1752

Date/Date Range Published: 1752

Language: French

Region Depicted: AlaskaArctic OceanArctic regionsArizonaCaliforniaCanadaColoradoGreenlandIdahoMontanaNevadaNew MexicoNorth PoleNorthwest PassageOregonRussiaUtahWyoming

Map Type: Geographical

Dimensions: 30 x 39 cm.

Printing Process: Engraving

Printing Technique: Copper

Material Type: Paper

Historical Context: This fascinating map of the North Pacific shows a conjectured shape of the American Northwest based on reports by Bartholomew De Fonte and some Russian explorers. The mythical Bay of the West is one of the more prominent nonexistent features depicted here.

LC Call Number: G3270 .L5 1772

OCLC: 5405011

Accession Number: OS-1772-1

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

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