Historic Map : Vaugondy, Diderot Map of Alaska, The Pacific Northwest & The Northwest Passage, 1772, Vintage Wall Art Europe Italy Rome Florence Sicily Naples Venice Map depicting Italy before its unification. 5248832 A beautiful example of Rigobert

A beautiful example of Rigobert Bonne's 1771 decorative map of the Persia

New Brunswick and Nova Scotia

it was interpreted as the Bering Strait by cartographers

and various Nor (or lakes) in the region

Historic Map : Vaugondy, Diderot Map of Alaska, The Pacific Northwest & The Northwest Passage, 1772, Vintage Wall Art Europe Italy Rome Florence Sicily Naples Venice Map depicting Italy before its unification. 5248832 A beautiful example of RigobertA truly fascinating 1772 map of the northwestern parts of North America by Robert de Vaugondy and Thomas Jefferys. Essentially depicts the north eastern parts of Asia, speculations on northwestern America, and Admiral De Fonte's mythical conception of a Northwest Passage. Heavily based upon earlier work by Thomas Jefferys, Thomas Swaine Drage, Gerhard Muller, and James De Lisle. Vaugondy prepared this map prior to the voyages of James Cook to this