A handwritten contemporary copy. Concerns appointment of young
Kamchadals to local cossack units and as clerics. Physical Description: 1p. File type: PDF 24 MB
Shows tracks of various voyages, including Bering and Chirikov. Relief shown by hachures. "Republished by Thomas Jefferys, Geographer to his Majesty." Considered to be the first English edition of a map published by the Royal Academy of Sciences...
"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...