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Essai d'une carte polaire arctique : construite d'après toutes les connoissances les plus nouvelles pour servir aux navigations et aux découvertes à faire dans la mer glaciale [map] / presentée à l'Académie Royale des Sciences avec un Mémoire approuvé le 24 Mars 1773 et jugé digne d'être imprimé dans le Recueil des Mémoires des Savans étrangers, par le Sr. de Vaugondy Géographe ordinaire du Roi, du feu Roi de Pologne Duc de Lorraine et de Bar, de l'Academie royale de Nanci, et Censeur royal ; gravé par E. Dussy.
Author
Robert de Vaugondy, Didier, 1723-1786
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Format
Map
Language
French
Published/Created
A Paris : Chés l'Auteur Quai de l'horloge du Palais près le Pont neuf, 1774.
Description
Scale not given (W 180°00ʹ00ʺ--E 180°00ʹ00ʺ/N 90°00ʹ00ʺ--N 60°00ʹ00ʺ).
1 map : hand col. ; 47 cm. in diam., on sheet 55 x 48 cm.
Details
Subject(s)
Arctic regions
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Maps
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Early works to 1800
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Polar regions
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Maps
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Early works to 1800
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Engraver
Dussy, E.
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Maps
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Getty AAT genre
Maps
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Arctic regions
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1774
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Maps
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Polar regions
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1774
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Notes
Polar projection.
Shows Robert de Vaugondy's proposed route across the North Pole to the Pacific Ocean.
Historic Maps copy has ms. annotations.
References
Pedley, Mary. Bel et utile no. 25
OCLC
309454214
International Standard Recording Code
HM 2013-29
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