Partie De La Carte du Capitaine Cluny Auteur d'un ouvrage anglois intitule American Traveller. publie a Londres en 1769.
by Diderot (Denis) & Didier Robert de Vaugondy
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About This Item
Paris: Diderot, 1772. Engraved map on laid paper, sheet size is 44.5cm x 25cm. Not coloured. Fresh, clean copy with original folds. At upper right: "Suppl. Car. 10". A map based on Capt. Cluny's mythical voyage, created for Diderot's great Encyclopedie (1772). The map depicts North America, the Arctic, and a supposed NW Passage. At least two varieties of this map exist (no known priority), of which this is the one with "les 7 Isles" above the map's border at the upper right.
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- William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop (CA)
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- Title
- Partie De La Carte du Capitaine Cluny Auteur d'un ouvrage anglois intitule American Traveller. publie a Londres en 1769.
- Author
- Diderot (Denis) & Didier Robert de Vaugondy
- Book Condition
- Used
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- Paris: Diderot, 1772
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William Matthews, Bookseller / The Haunted Bookshop
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