CARTE GENERALE DES DECOUVERTES DE L'AMIRAL DE FONTE, 1752

Rare original copper engraving with contemporary hand-colouring, published by De L'Isle of the Royal Academy of Science in Paris, September, 1752; it illustrates the track of Admiral Fonte's apocryphal discovery of a northwest passage on a voyage in 1640, as well as the other early 18th century English, Spanish and Russian navigators; image size 28.6 x 38.1cm (11 1/4 x 15in); sheet size 38.7 x 41.9cm (15 1/4 x 16 1/2in), unframed