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San Marino, CA 91108
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Kashnor notes, " From Norway and Spitzbergen to the Behring Straits; an accurate and very interesting map, showing the exact point at which North American exploration had arrived at the time. Cluny was one of the early Western Pioneers. The American Traveller was published anonymously in 1769. It gave more information about the West than any other work up to the time, and showed that the possibilities of the interior were very great, especially in the countries of the Hudson's Bay Company." Kashnor is only partly correct. Cluny wrote that he was sure no passage existed and argued that having the Hudson's Bay Company as sole exploiter of the area was costing the British government a great loss in taxes. The passage shown as the Nord Ouest Passage on this map was an invention of the publisher of this work, not Cluny. Note this is the only map of Robert de Vaugondy's series of ten with this wide format. Upper right corner- Suppl Carte 10. MS note: 438 (on backing). Prime meridian: Ferro. Projection: Mercator. Printing Process: Copper engraving.
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Kashnor notes, "This is the Châtelain map, taken from DeLisle. It locates only the French forts around Hudson's Bay, and shows a correct idea of the locations of the Indian tribes west of the Great Lakes; also shows La Houton's assumed location of the great River of the West, and the western sea beyond the range of mountains." Kashnor dates as ca. 1720. See 105:431 for another version, 105:433 for an earlier version. Historical remarks replace of cartouche on 105:431 version.. Prime meridian: Ferro?. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Miles, leagues. Projection: Pseudocylindrical. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Verso Text: MS note: 432.
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Kashnor notes, "The inset map of the North-West is very interesting, showing Lac Bernarda, Lac de Fonte, and Det. d'Anian, and locates New Albion, P. de Drake, Pt. de Monterey, &c." This submap is the same map Didier Robert de Vaugondy published in the Supplement to Diderot's Encyclopedia in the same year. RLIN record identifies mapmaker as Gilles (father) rather than Didier (son). Submap of North-West showing de Fonte speculations.. Prime meridian: Ferro. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: miles, leagues. Projection: Pseudocylindrical. Watermark: Shield lettering. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: CartoucheSub-maps. References: Phillips 3524. Verso Text: MS notes: 208 102.
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Kashnor notes, "Shows Alaska, the Estuary of the Mackenzie, and the country south of Prince of Wales Archipelago, as well as a good map of Kamtschatka." Same as 105:011, but with reduced margins. Above neat line right; Atlas Universel Pl. 26. Below neat line left; Graveé sous la direction de l'Auteur. Engraved stamp upper left; Carte Encyprotipe du fonds de l'Auteur. Submap "Complément des Regions Polaires Boréalis." Shows area from Greenland to Hudson's Bay.. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Graphic Scale: No. Projection: Equidistant Conic. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Sub-maps. Verso Text: Ms. note: No. 10.
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Two maps on one sheet. Kashnor dates ca. 1772. Trimmed from upper right - Suppl. 6e. Carte. Atlas and publisher from McLaughlin and others. Lower map has two text blocks with explanatory material on sources. MS note: 9 [on backing].. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: No. Projection: Conic. Watermark: EIN grapes?. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Text blocks.
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Kashnor notes, " Indicates the location of the Indian nations and the French forts, especially those taken from the Hudson's Bay Company. It locates the wintering place, on the Bay, of Jean Munck in 1619. This is one of the earliest issues of Delisle's map." See also 105:431, 105:432 for later versions. Cartouche with natives.. Prime meridian: Ferro?. Relief: pictorial. Graphic Scale: Miles, leagues. Projection: Pseudocylindrical. Watermark: Chained Maltese cross lettering. Printing Process: Copper engraving. Other Features: Cartouche. References: McCorkle 703.5. Verso Text: MS notes: 432.
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