Carte des Decouvtes. de l'Amal. de Fonte selon la Carte Angloise donne par l'Ecrivain du Vaisseu la Californie dans son Voyage a la Bay d'Hudson Avec les Terres vues et reconnues pars les Russes Et une Comparaison du Resultat des Cartes du 16e. et 17e. Siecle au sujet du Detroit d'Anian. Dressee par Phil. Buache et de l'Academie des Scieces. (to accompany) Considerations physique.
Color map of the North Pacific and contiguous parts of the Northwest Coast of America and Northeast Coast of Asia. Includes exploration by the Russians up to 1750, and by de Fonte. Shows Bay of the West and the channel for a water course via the Archipel de St. Lazare ou Strait of Anian toward Hudso...
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| Summary: | Color map of the North Pacific and contiguous parts of the Northwest Coast of America and Northeast Coast of Asia. Includes exploration by the Russians up to 1750, and by de Fonte. Shows Bay of the West and the channel for a water course via the Archipel de St. Lazare ou Strait of Anian toward Hudson's Bay. Above neat line at right: IIe. Carte du Mem. lu a l'Acad. le 9 Aout 1752. Page 13. Includes historical tracks of various voyages. Relief shown pictorially. Includes notes. Atlas of the physical geography. In two volumes; the first comprising a textual description of recent discoveries in the northern part of the North Pacific Ocean, This is the second volume, part 3, including 16 double page plates, 12 maps and 4 cross sections. Covers: Arctic regions, North pacific Ocean, Pacific Coast ( North America) Japan, Siberia (Russia). Bound in marbled half leather covers with title in gilt on spine. Map are hand colored copper plate engraving dated 1852-1854. Some maps engraved by Jean-Baptiste-Henri Delahaye. Showing political and administrative boundaries, major cities, towns, ports, rivers, canals and mountains. Philippe Buache was a French geographer. He was trained under the geographer Guillaume Delisle, whom he succeeded in the Academie des sciences in 1730. Buache was nominated first geographer of the king in 1729. He established the division of the world by seas and river systems. From Christies auction description of the Martin Greene copy of this atlas (including the text volume): "The first edition of the magnum opus of eighteenth-century Pacific Northwest geography, in the most desired state with maps separately bound in atlas format. This work brings together significant reports concerning the geography of the Pacific Northwest, including the Russian explorations of coastal Alaska, into a coherent cartographic project. Issued over the course of three years, complete sets are extremely rare. Buache, who married into the Delisle family of cartographers, has been overshadowed somewhat in historical ... |
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