| Summary: | Taken from title: "From the book by Delisle, Nouvelle Cartes de découvertes de L'Amiral de Fronte, et autres Navigateurs, Paris, 1753". Uncolored. Size: 16 x 11 inches. The full title of this map reads in English: A general map of the discoveries of Admiral de Fonte and other navigators, Spanish, English and Russian in quest of a passage to the South Sea by Mr. de l'Isle of the Royal Academy of Sciences, etc. A very rare and important map depicting the apocryphal 'Mer de l'Ouest' and the Strait of Anian by Joseph-Nicholas de L'Isle, which were at the center of one of history's most heated cartographic debates about the existence of the Northwest Passage. This rare map is removed from the book by Delisle, Nouvelle Cartes de découvertes de L'Amiral de Fronte, et autres Navigateurs, Paris, 1753 which includes this and 3 other maps which are placed at the end of the pamphlet after the 60 pages of text [See: 2014.041.00.0001 the printed text]. Robert de Vaugondy copied this map, one of ten, for inclusion in Diderot's Encyclopedie. The map was prepared by the prominent, yet controversial cartographer Joseph-Nicholas de L'Isle, and published as part of his rare pamphlet, Nouvelles cartes des decouvertes de l'Amiral de Fonte, et autres navigateurs espagnols, portugais, anglois, hollandois, françois et russes, dans les mers septentrionales (Paris, 1753). The chart is dedicated to Antoine-Louis Rouille, Chevalier Comte de Jouy, &c., the French Scretary of State of the Navy.
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