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De Vaugondy map with early Alaska 1772

Title: Partie de la Carte du Capitaine Cluny Auteur d'un ouvrage anglois intitule American Traveller publie a Londres en 1769
Author: De Vaugondy, Robert
Description: Copper-engraved map, later hand-coloring in outline. 31x50 cm. (12x20"), plate size, plus margins.The north part of North America, plus part of Europe and Asia, providing a glimpse of the growing cartographic knowledge of Alaska, a supposed "passage Nord Ouest," etc. Issued in the supplement to Diderot's Encyclopedie as part of the series of ten maps by De Vaugondy illustrating the then-current views of the geography of the northwest of America. Wagner, NW Coast, 637.
Heading: zzgPlace Published: [Paris]
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Date Published: [1772]