OCEANIA PACIFIC NORTH AMERICA 1785 BELLIN RARE ANTIQUE WORD MAP ITALIAN EDITION
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OCEANIA PACIFIC NORTH AMERICA 1785 BELLIN RARE ANTIQUE WORD MAP ITALIAN EDITION:
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OCEANIA PACIFIC NORTH AMERICA 1785 BELLIN RARE ANTIQUE WORD MAP ITALIAN EDITION OCEANIA PACIFIC NORTH AMERICA 1785 BELLIN RARE ANTIQUE WORD MAP ITALIAN EDITION
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DescriptionCarta dell\'ultimo Viaggio del Capitano Kook 1785.
Eastern Russia (Siberia & Kamtchatska), Korean Peninsula, Japan, China, Papua-New Guinea, Taiwan (Formosa), Philippines and Polynesia. To the top the map shows the Arctic Lands with Icebergs (\"Monti di ghiaccio\"). Tasmania is attached at the southern Australia.
James Cook\'s third and final voyage (12 July 1776 – 4 October 1780) took the route from Plymouth via Cape Town and Tenerife to New Zealand and the Hawaiian Islands, and along the North American coast to the Bering Strait.
Its ostensible purpose was to return Omai, a young man from Raiatea to his homeland, but the Admiralty used this as a cover for their plan to send Cook on a voyage to discover the Northwest Passage. HMS Resolution, to be commanded by Cook, and HMS Discovery, commanded by Charles Clerke, were prepared for the voyage which started from Plymouth in 1776.
Omai was returned to his homeland and the ships sailed onwards, discovering the Hawaiian Archipelago, before reaching the Pacific coast of North America. The two charted the west coast of the continent and passed through the Bering Strait when they were stopped by ice from sailing either east or west. The vessels returned to the Pacific and called briefly at the Aleutians before retiring towards Hawaii for the winter.
At Kealakekua Bay, a number of quarrels broke out between the Europeans and Hawaiians culminating in Cook\'s death in a violent exchange on 14 February 1779. The command of the expedition was assumed by Charles Clerke who tried in vain to find the passage before his own death. Under the command of John Gore the crews.
Date: 1785 ( dated )
Condition: Very strong and dark impression on strong paper. Paper with chains. Plate uncolored. Wide margins. Right lateral margin partially cut to the lower side. Map folded. Conditions are as you can see in the images.
Mapmaker: Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772) was one of the most important and prolific French cartographers of the mid-eighteenth century, in the service of the French Hydrographical Office. He was appointed the first Ingenieur Hydrographe de la Marine, and also Official Hydrographer to the French King.
Bellin was responsible for an enormous output of charts and maps. In a large folio format, he issued a volume of sea-charts of France, the Neptune Francois, and several sea-atlases of the World, including the Atlas Maritime and the Hydrographie Francaise. These large charts were amongst the best of the period and continued being reissued throughout the second half of the eighteenth century.
In smaller format, he issued the Petit Atlas Maritime (1764),which contained 580 detailed charts, as well as maps to illustrate l\'Abbe Prevost\'s Histoire Generale des Voyages (1746-1757). Bellin also produced a substantial number of important separately issued maps, particularly reflecting continuing discoveries and political events in the Americas.
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OCEANIA PACIFIC NORTH AMERICA 1785 BELLIN RARE ANTIQUE WORD MAP ITALIAN EDITION:
$112.50