Carte du geometrique des decouvertes de l'amiral de Fonte et de son capitaine Bernarda comparee avec le systeme de la carte angloise publiee par l'Ecrivain du Vaisseu la Californie. Dressee et Presente a l'Acad. des Sciences Par Philippe Buache. Publiee sous le Privilege de l'Acad. R.le des Sc. du 6. Sept.bre 1752. A Paris, sur le Quay de l'Horloge. (to accompany) Considerations physique.

• Main Authors: Buache, Philippe, 1700-1773, Academie Royale des Sciences (France)
• Format: Map
• Language: unknown
• Published: Buache 1752
• Subjects: Exploration; Arctic; Detroit; Greene; Guillaume; Hudson; Hudson Bay; Northwest Passage; Pacific; Northwest passage; Alaska; Siberia
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Color map of the North America and Northwest passage. Shows exploration tracks and geography according to Amiral de Fonte (Bartolomé da Fuente) and his Captain, Pedro de Bernarda. Include the "Mer de l'Ouest", "S.t Lazare ou Detroit d'Anian" running from the Pacific Ocean to Hudson Bay. Shows a text extract to the left of the map describing the routes of Amiral de Fonte and Captain Bernarda according to a 1748 manuscript by Guillaume de l'Isle. Above neat line at right: IIIe. Carte du Mem. lu a l'Acad. le 9 Aout 1752. Page 16. 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 ...