Published by Paris, Paris, 1773
Seller: High Ridge Books, Inc. - ABAA, South Deerfield, MA, U.S.A.
Supplementary map from the Diderot Encyclopedia, with 4 maps of Labrador and Hudson Bay on one sheet. Outline color, wide margins. The maps include maps of the region by Delisle and Sanson, along with one which shows Hudson Bay as depicted by the explorer Henry Ellis.
Published by Paris, Paris, 1773
Seller: High Ridge Books, Inc. - ABAA, South Deerfield, MA, U.S.A.
The main map shows the northern portion of the Eurasian continent, from China, Korea and Japan around to Norway. Four inset maps provide depictions of various portions of the west coast of North America. Outline color, wide margins. Published as a supplement to Diderot's Encyclopedia.
Published by Paris, Paris, 1773
Seller: High Ridge Books, Inc. - ABAA, South Deerfield, MA, U.S.A.
2 maps on one sheet, the upper map showing the European view of the northern Pacific. Shows western North America, from New Orleans west and including the Mer de l'Ouest, to Kamchatka and northern Japan. The lower map shows the Japanese perception of the same region, with very sketchy and inaccurate features in North America and a larger showing of the Japanese islands. The Japanese map has no evident depiction of Alaska. Outline color, wide margins. Published as a supplement to Diderot's Encyclopedia.
Published by Paris, Paris, 1773
Seller: High Ridge Books, Inc. - ABAA, South Deerfield, MA, U.S.A.
Map of the northern Pacific showing many of the attempts to map a northwest passage from Hudson Bay to Asia. Inlcudes the great geographic fallacy, Mer de l'Ouest which dominated western North America. Outline color, wide margins, light wear at edges. Pedley 454, McGuirk 147.