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MAP OF RUSSIAN ALASKA -- MÜLLER, Gerhard Friedrich. Nouvelle Carte des Découvertes faites par des Vaisseaux Russiens aux côtes inconnues de l'Amerique Septentrionale avec les Pais adjacents. St. Petersburg: Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1758.
Engraved full-sheet map, 630 x 470mm with deckle-edges. (Short tears in the margins, stitch-hole with small tear not affecting the image).
RUSSIAN ALASKA AND THE NORTH EAST PASSAGE. A fine map also showing Eastern Siberia, Kamchatka and the Kuril Islands. Chirikov's and Bering's landing sites in Alaska are mapped, as are the tracks of their voyages, including Bering's first passage through the strait in 1728. The track of Semen Dezhnev's 1648 voyage through the strait is also mapped -- its record had been rediscovered in a Siberian archive soon after Bering's second passage. Mikhail Gvodsev's discovery is here dated 1730. Describing the very rare 1754 issue, Streeter noted that 'this is the first map to give an approximate picture of what is now the Alaska Peninsula'. It confirmed the existence of a body of water between Russia and America, which had been a subject of much dispute. Cf. Streeter 3456. (See also lot 84.)
Engraved full-sheet map, 630 x 470mm with deckle-edges. (Short tears in the margins, stitch-hole with small tear not affecting the image).
RUSSIAN ALASKA AND THE NORTH EAST PASSAGE. A fine map also showing Eastern Siberia, Kamchatka and the Kuril Islands. Chirikov's and Bering's landing sites in Alaska are mapped, as are the tracks of their voyages, including Bering's first passage through the strait in 1728. The track of Semen Dezhnev's 1648 voyage through the strait is also mapped -- its record had been rediscovered in a Siberian archive soon after Bering's second passage. Mikhail Gvodsev's discovery is here dated 1730. Describing the very rare 1754 issue, Streeter noted that 'this is the first map to give an approximate picture of what is now the Alaska Peninsula'. It confirmed the existence of a body of water between Russia and America, which had been a subject of much dispute. Cf. Streeter 3456. (See also lot 84.)
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