Subject: Spitsbergen
Period: 1758 (dated)
Publication: Histoire Generale des Voyages
Color: Hand Color
Size:
12 x 8.6 inches
30.5 x 21.8 cm
Copper engraved map of Spitsbergen (Svalbard) with the adjacent islands of Franz Josef Land and Jan Mayan. There is good detail of the rocks, shoals, regions of ice, and anchorages with notations concerning discoveries and explorations. A French-style decorative title cartouche, fleur-de-lis, and rhumb lines complete the chart.
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Condition: A
Issued folding, now pressed, on watermarked paper with a binding trim at bottom right that has been repaired with old paper to accommodate framing.