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Auction: 329 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 969

Northwest Passage. Partie de la Carte du Capitaine Cluny Auteur d'un ouvrage anglois intitule American Traveller. Robert de Vaugondy after Cluny's Map of 1769, published in Diderot's Encyclopaedia, ca. 1773. Northern Western Hemisphere on Mercator's projection showing North America and Europe and the supposed Northwest Passage between Hudson and Baffin Bay and the Arctic Ocean. Short "R. de l'Ouest" (Western River) indicated from California coastline. Left margin cropped, from "R" of "MER" left. A Fine map.


Estimate
$75 to $125