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• Title:Partie de la Carte du Capitaine Cluny, auteur d'un ouvrage anglois intitulé American Traveller publié à Londres en 1769.
  
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• Author/Creator:Robert de Vaugondy, Didier, 1723-1786, cartographer.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Clúny, Alexander.
  Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784, author.
  Andrew McCormick Collection.
  
• Published/Created:[Livourne ] : [Rovert de Vaugondy], [1779].
  
• In: [Recueil de 10 cartes...traitant particulierement de l'Amerique du Nord et des regions arctiques, d'apres les relations les plus authentiques depuis le commencement du 17 siecle, reproduites...] Livourne, 1779. plate 1.
  

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  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS framedWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: G3210 1779 .R62
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    
  • Links:Andrew McCormick Collection
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Arctic regions--Maps--Early works to 1800.
  North America--Discovery and exploration--Early works to 1800.
  Northwest Passage--Maps--Early works to 1800.
  California--Maps--Early works to 1800.
  
• Description:Scale approximately 1:45 619 200 ; (W 170 ̊-E 40 ̊/ N 80 ̊-N 30 ̊).
  1 map : colored ; 21 x 42 cm.
  
• Summary:Copper engraved, hand colored, map of Northern Hemisphere with a focus on North America, routes of the explorers, the colonies, cities therein, as well as the Arctic and the Northwest passage.
  
• Local note:UBC has a copy in the Andrew McCormick Collection, listed as mccormick_66
  
• Notes:Atlas map removed from source: Robert de Vaugondy, Didier. [Recueil de 10 cartes...traitant particulierement de l'Amerique du Nord et des regions arctiques, d'apres les relations les plus authentiques depuis le commencement du 17 siecle, reproduites ... Livourne, 1779.
  "Suppl. Carte 10" above top right border.
  "Plate I" in pencil on map.
  Prepared by Didier Robert de Vaugondy for Diderot's Suite du recueil des planches, sur les sciences, les arts liberaux, et les arts méchaniques, avec leur explication.
  Prime meridian: Isle de Fer.
  Watermark in each half.