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Tabula geographica partis septentrionalis Maris Pacifici. Euler 1760

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Tabula Geographica Partis Septentrionalis Maris Euler map 1760

Title: Tabula Geographica Partis Septentrionalis Maris Pacifici Cum Adjacentibus Regionibus .......

Description: A very interesting scarce old map of Alaska and the North Pacific showing the costliness of North America, East Asia with the countries behind.

The map depicting the World Discoveries in 1723, 1732 and 1741, Bering's first and second voyages, the track of de Frondat's voyage of 1709, the tracks of Prof. Louis de l'Isle de la Croyère in 1741 and the route of the Spanish galleons in 1743.

The title cartouche is flanked by a native of Kamchatka and native of Louisiana and a Prussian duty stamp, and a stamp af the Russian crown lower right.
Leonhard von Euler worked with L'Isle in St. Petersburg.

Ref: Tooley 102A.

Cartographer: Leonhard Euler (1707-1783) was a Swiss mathematician and physicist, and was arguably the greatest mathematician of the eighteenth century.
This map was engraved by Nikolaus Friedrich Sauerbrey engraver of the Prussian Academy of Sciences. (Königlich-Preußische Akademie der Wissenschaften)

Origin: Geographischer Atlas bestehend in 44 Land-Charten, worauf alle Theile des Erd-Creyses vorgestellet werden. Auf Befehl der Königlichen Academie der Wissenschaften nach den bischer herausgekommenen besten Charten beschrieben, und insbesondere zum Gebrauch der Jugend in den Schulen herausgegeben.

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Size:
Sheet app.: 44 x 36 cm. 17 x 14 x inches.
Image app:. 37 x 31.5 cm. 14.5 x 12.25 inches.
Condition: Scare map with marginal restoration in good condition.