Relief shown pictorially. Prime meridian: Paris. From A. F. Prevost's Histoire generale des voyages. "Carte No. 5 page 71 du Tome 18 in 4° et page 192 du Tom. 69 in 12. Tome 9 in 8° page 1 No. 2." Decorative cartouche.
Shows the Americas with California as an island and Greenland as part of a great polar continent. Sheet 1 of a two part set titled: Carte generale de toutes les costes du monde et les pays nouvellement decouvert, dressee sur les relations les plus...
extracted from the description of Kamtchatka by Professor Krashennicoff, printed at Petersburg, in two volumes, 4to. in 1759; and tr. and communicated by the Rev. D. Dumaresque, D.D. chaplain to the English factory at...
A Woman of Oonalaska (sic) [engraved portrait by John Webber of Aleut woman with tattooed face and linked nose labret.] From: Cook, James A. (Captain) 1728-1779, A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean…
Map of Asian Russia, showing an entirely different configuration of N.E. Asia from other maps in the same atlas. Long "Destroit de Iesso" runs from 54 degrees N to 69 degrees N. Iesso reappears between 40 degrees N and 43 degrees N at edge of...
Relief shown pictorially. Inset: the north part of Norway, Lapland and Greenland. Includes 5 large illustrations and a brief text description of the lifestyle of the Laplanders. "According to the newest and most exacting observation by H. Moll,...
Shows route of Barentsz's [Barendsz's / Barents's] voyage. Illustrated with ships, compass roses and fanciful sea life. Attributed to J.T. and J.I. Bry.
Published in [Frankfurt] in [1601]. Scale is not given.
From de Bry's Zwolffter Theil der Newen Welt, das ist, Grundliche volkommene Entdeckung aller der west indianischen Landschafften, insuln vnd Konigreichen..., with a small depiction of the Americas surrounded by annotated illustrations of explorers...
Relief shown pictorially. Woodcut. Alternate title on verso within ornamental border. Based on discoveries by Verrazano. First map to show the two American continents as being attached, also names the Pacific Ocean and depicts Japan. Predominant...
Relief shown pictorially. Shows California as an island and a coastline, Terrae Esonis, between the northern tip of California and what is possibly the Kamchatka Peninsula. Illustrated with various peoples of the New World. Hand colored....
Relief shown pictorially. From de Jode's Specvlvm orbis terrae. Attributed to Antoine Wiericx. cf. Phillips. Illustrated with ships and fanciful sea creatures. On verso (fol. 12), text titled Qvivirae Regnum. This map is sometimes advertised...
Relief shown pictorially. "Per livinum algoet auctorem Gerardus de Lode excudebat." "Ioannes a Duetecu Lucas a Duetecu fecerunt." Includes numerous small illustrations of ships and sea creatures. Latin text on verso: Svetia, Gothia et...