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...
"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...
Shows Van Dieman's Land and New Guinea attached to the continent and the mythical Compagnie Land north of Japan. Relief shown pictorially. "Les Indies sont corrigees par M. Daprais, capitaine des Vaisseaux de la compagnie." Decorative...
Relief shown by hachures. "Apres la carte du G'd. Ocean par Delamarche, success'r. de Vaugondy." Prime meridian: Paris. Outline color. Hand-colored. Colors identify major religions of regions. 22 x 37 cm.
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.
Title taken from caption. "Ustensiles et armes des habitans du detroit de Behring". A display of native weaponry, spear heads, arrows and other artifacts. There also appear to be some plates and baskets.
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...
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. "Tchouktchis et Leurs Habitations". A drawing of Village life, Including a man, women and child in the foreground, with several native dwellings and people in the background.
Title taken from caption. "Vue de St. Pierre et St. Paul au Kamtschatka, (View of St. Peter and St. Paul of Kamtchatka). A sketch of a small costal village, with women children and dogs. Also a view of the open sea, hills and...