Carte physique des terreins les plus eleves de la partie occidentale du Canada . Dressee par Philippe Buache, Delahaye L'Aine, sculpsit. Reduction de la carte tracee par le Sauvage Ochagach . Publiee sous le Privilege de l'Academie des Sciences, du 4 Septembre 1754. Delahaye l'Aine sculpsit. (to accompany) Considerations physique.

• Main Authors: Buache, Philippe, 1700-1773, Academie Royale des Sciences (France), Delahaye, Jean-Baptiste-Henri
• Format: Map
• Language: unknown
• Published: Buache 1754
• Subjects: Exploration; Arctic; Canada; Greene; Guillaume; Pacific; Siberia
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Engraved colored in outline map of two separate depictions of the interior of the North American continent and Pacific Northwest. Showing trace the river routes from Hudson’s Bay and Lakes Huron, Michigan and Superior in the Northeast, to the apocryphal “Mer de l’ouest” in the unexplored American West. Buache’s depictions for this map were gathered from indigenous native sources as well as from manuscript material drawn by early French explorers and fur traders. In fact, the title of the upper depiction states that the information was garnered by Ochagach, a North American native, which was then given to French officers. At head of map "Reduction de la carte tracee par le Sauvage Ochagach et autres, laquelle a donné lieu aux découvertes des officiers Francais representees dans la carte cy jointe." Above neat line at right: VIIIe. Carte pour la 3e et derniere Partie des considerations &c. Page 146. Includes notes. Relief shown pictorially. 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 ...