2 maps of the North Pacific Ocean area printed on the same page. Suppl. 6e. carte in Diderot's Encyclopedia. Also published in Robert de Vaugondy's Recueil de 10 cartes. Relief shown pictorially.
2 maps on 1 sheet. Relief shown by hachures. In color. Map of the Arctic regions by Buache; map of a portion of the Japanese Islands by Kaempfer. "Suppl. 6e carte" of Robert de Vaugondy's Recueil de 10 cartes.
"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...
"Dressee en 1764 par M***. Nouvelle edition reduite par M. de Vaugondy." "Suppl. 2e carte" of Robert de Vaugondy's "Recueil de 10 cartes". Wagner, 637.
A reduced version of the De l'Isle/Buache map published by the Prussian Academy of Science & Literature, published by Euler, a German mathematician who was with the St. Petersburg Academy. Shows routes of Russian discoveries in 1723, 1732, and...
Double hemisphere showing "Pars Borealis" and "Pars Australis". Relief shown pictorially. Double cordiform projection. Considered the most influential polar world map published in the sixteenth century; prototype for Mercator's double cordiform...
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."
Five maps on one sheet. Relief shown by pictorially and by hachures. Components: I. La Carte manuscrite de l'Amerique de Mathieu Neron Pecci olen dressee a Florence en 1604. -- II. Sanson 1656. --III. De l'Isle Amerique Sept. 1700. -- IV. Le...
Full title: A journey into Siberia, made by order of the king of France. Containing an account of the manners and customs of the Russians, the present state of their empire; with the natural history, and geographical description of their country,...
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...
Map of Asian Russia, including Bering Strait and part of the western coast of Alaska. Relief shown by hachures. Hand colored; outline color. Embossed with the seal de l'Auteur. No. 43 of Brue's Atlas universel de geographie physique.
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...