Amérique Boreale pour servir à l'Histoire des dernieres découvertes.
Gravé sur Acier par Laguillermie, Rue de Noyers, no 55. Imprimé par Mangeon. [Paris, 1837.] Etched map with some outline colour. Printed area 330 x 470mm, 13 x 18½". Slight crease on left; edges knocked. Map of Arctic America, published in Montemont's 'Histoire Universelle des Voyages', with Alaska still marked as Russian (a boundary line shows the limits of Russian and British territory under a treaty of 1825). Designed to show 'new discoveries', there is evidence of re-engraving in the Nunavut region of Canada.
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