"Dediee et presente au roy par son tres humble, tres obeysant, et tres fidele serviteur et sujet Louis Claude de Vezou." "Gravee par J. Lattre." Includes 11 circular charts showing solar and lunar eclipses, positions of the horizon, and models of...
Edition of October, 1887. Selective relief shown by hachures and spot heights; depths shown by soundings. "Grave par C. Legras." "Ecrit par Vialard." Prime meridian: Paris. "No. 3784." "124-181."
Engraved map of Russia, with information based on Russian maps. Double sheet map (glued together). Half circle title top center. Cutaways in bottom corners, one showing scales, one labeled "Observation," acknowledging what maps the information...
Hand colored. From Renard's Atlas de la Navigation (1715). Polar projection. Sheet illustrated with the figure of Atlas carrying the globe in the shape of a planisphere. Shows California as an island.
Hand colored. Polar projection. Shows Robert de Vaugondy's proposed route across the North Pole to the Pacific Ocean. Published in Paris in 1774. [Ches l'Auteur Quai de l'horloge du Palais prex le Pont neuf]. Scale is not given (W180...
Relief shown pictorially. From From Prevost's Histoire generale des voyages. "Suivant les decouvertes des Hollandois et les cartes des Russes." "Tome XV in 4° No. 3. Tome 17 in 8° page 331."
Relief shown pictorially. Hand colored. Polar projection. Kamchatka Peninsula and details of the Russian coastline are missing from this version of de L'Isle's north polar projection, which, along with added text, can be found on his 1740...
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 Greenland, Iceland and a portion of St. James Island. Relief shown pictorially. From A.F. Prevost's Histoire generale des voyages. "Voyages 4° Tom. XIX pag. 1ere. Voyages in 12 Tom. LXXIII pag. 1ere. Tome 18 in 8°, page 105."
Shows names of indigenous groups, forts, towns and Mackenzie's discoveries. Border includes geographical and historical information. Selective relief shown by hachures. Title in top margin: Carte geographique, statistique et historique des...
Shows names of indigenous groups, forts, towns and Mackenzie's discoveries. Border includes geographical and historical information. Selective relief shown by hachures. Title in top margin: Carte geographique, statistique et historique des...
Shows Northwestern America and the northeastern tip of Asia, including an enormous and prominent false "Mer l'Ouest" as well as a clear North West Passage; based on the rare De L'Isle map which supposedly chronicled the discoveries of one "Admiral...
Shows route of Billings' 1786-1794 expedition. Relief shown by hachures. "Planche XV." From Sauer's Voyage fait par ordre de l'imperatrice de Russe, Catherine II, dans le nord de la Russie asiatique …
Shows route of Cook's 3rd voyage. Relief shown pictorially; depths shown by soundings. "Andre, scul." "Bonne fil.del.?" Prime meridian: Paris. Inset: Plan du havre de Samgano Odha dans l'isle de Oonalaska." "126." Compass rose. "Cook, 3d...
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...
Title taken from caption. "Costumes des habitants des Iles Aleoutiennes", (Costumes of inhabitants of the Aleutian Islands). A native man wearing a long overcoat and a head gear (visor) leaning on a paddle. He is facing a woman in a long...
Title taken from caption. "Habitans des iles Aleoutiennes". Inhabitants of the Aleutians Islands. Potrait of Man and a woman with native garments and jewery.
Book citation: Voyages pittoresque autour du monde, avec des portraits...