Buache / Kaempfer: Carte des Nouvelles Decouvertes. . . / Extrait d'une Carte Japonoise de l'Univers

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Buache / Kaempfer : Carte des Nouvelles Decouvertes. . . / Extrait d'une Carte Japonoise de l'Univers

Black & White, Very Good, Size : 295x380 (mm), 11.625x15 (Inches)

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1752 - 1756 "These maps were included in Diderot's Enclyclopedie and thus were give wide circulation and much authority. This map is a simplified version of one made by Buache in 1752, the first to show Bearings two voyages of 1728 -30 and 1741-2 it was also the first to show the mythical Mer de l'Ouest in the vicinity of Vancouver, and idea subsequently much copied. Oddly if gives a Chinese name, Fou-Sang, to British Coloumbia. The lower map is a detail copied from a Japanese Map." (Portinaro and Knirsch pg. 249)

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