Carte des terres aux environs du Japon ou du nord-est de l'Asie et du nord-ouest de l'Amerique extraite d'une carte japonnoise de l'univers apportee en Europe par Kaempfer et deposee dans le cabinet de feu Mr. Hans-Sloane, president de la Societe R.le de Londres. (with) Carte des terres nouvellement connues au nord de la mer du sud tant du cote de l'Asie que du cote de l'Amerique. reduite d'apres les cartes presentees a l'Acad. des sc. au mois d'aout 1752. Avec la route des chinois en Amerique vers l'an 458 de J.C. tracee sur les connoiss. Geographiques que mr. Guignes a tiress des annales chinoises. Par Philippe Buache (to accompany) Considerations physique.

• Main Authors: Buache, Philippe, 1700-1773, Academie Royale des Sciences (France)
• Format: Map
• Language: unknown
• Published: Buache 1752
• Subjects: Exploration; Alaska; Siberia
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2 Engraved colored maps in outline on 1 sheet. Shows the lands around Japan or northeast Asia and northwestern America, extracted from a Japanese map of the universe brought to Europe by Kaempfer. And map of the newly known lands to the north of the South Sea on the coast of Asia and the coast of America. Reduced according to the maps presented to the Acad. Of sc. In the month of August 1752. Above neat line at right: VIe. Carte du Mem. lu a l'Acad. le 9. Aout 1752. Includes notes. Showing the route of the Chinese in America around the year 458. 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 ...