Admiral de Fonte & the Northwest Passage Publisher(s)_C Bathurst This French naval chart of

This French naval chart of Smyrna includes insets of Port d’Abri (the inner harbour at modern day Izmir) and two coastal profiles

The Blaeu firm was official cartographer to the Dutch East India Company (VOC)

courted controversy

Kelpra Studio number 'K7252' stamped on the verso

compiled from trigonometric Surveys

Admiral de Fonte & the Northwest Passage Publisher(s)_C Bathurst This French naval chart ofCarte gnrale des dcouvertes de lAmiral de Fonte, representant le grande probabilit dun Passage au Nord Ouest Maps depicting the purported voyage of the Spaniard Bartholomew de Fonte, supposedly between Hudson Bay and the Pacific in the mid seventeenth century, began to circulate in some numbers about a century later, contributing to speculation about the Northwest passage. Vaugondy follows Thomas Jefferys General Map of the discoveries of Admiral de