Carte de l'isle de Ieso et de ses environs pour servir a concilier les differentes idees que l'on en a eues jusqu'a present. Dressee par Philippe Bauche . 1754. Delahaye l'Aine sculpsit. (insets) Extrait de la Carte de l'Histre. de Kaempfer. (with) Extrait donne par Scheuchzer. (with) Parte oriental de Asia. (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; Greene; Guillaume; Pacific; Voit; Alaska; Siberia
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Engraved outline hand color map of the Isle of Ieso and its surroundings, Northeast Asia. Includes text and note :"Extrait de la carte originale manuscrite de Texeira ou l'on voit de détroit d'Anian qui ne se trouve point sur celle q[u]e Thevenot a publiée en 1664." Above neat line at right: Xe. Carte pour la 3.e Partie des Considerations etc. Page 75. 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 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 estimation by the Delisles on the one hand, and his successor d’Anville on the other. ...