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ENGEL, Samuel. Extraits raisonnés des voyages faits dans les parties septentrionales de l'Asie et de l'Amérique, ou nouvelles preuves de la possibilité d'un passage aux Indes par le Nord. Lausanne: Jules Henri Potts, 1779.
4o (260 x 207 mm). 2 large engraved folding maps (few tiny holes along folds). (Some browning.) Original wrappers (rebacked in paper).
FIRST EDITION. Decker calls this "An important work in that the author carries on the Buache-Delisle, Müller-Bering controversy concerning the discovery of the Northwest Coast of America. Engel censures Müller, stating that the latter was 'wishing to curry favor with the Russian government' by exaggerating certain maps. Engel's work was first published in 1765 under the title 'Mémoires et Observations ...' See the Imago Mundi, a Periodical Review of Early Cartography, part 3, 1939 for an article by Breitfuss, which quite capably discusses the Buache-Delisle, Müller-Bering controversy." Cowan, p. 78 ("In this work the long-existing fiction concerning an insular California was definitely and finally removed"); Sabin 22569.
4o (260 x 207 mm). 2 large engraved folding maps (few tiny holes along folds). (Some browning.) Original wrappers (rebacked in paper).
FIRST EDITION. Decker calls this "An important work in that the author carries on the Buache-Delisle, Müller-Bering controversy concerning the discovery of the Northwest Coast of America. Engel censures Müller, stating that the latter was 'wishing to curry favor with the Russian government' by exaggerating certain maps. Engel's work was first published in 1765 under the title 'Mémoires et Observations ...' See the Imago Mundi, a Periodical Review of Early Cartography, part 3, 1939 for an article by Breitfuss, which quite capably discusses the Buache-Delisle, Müller-Bering controversy." Cowan, p. 78 ("In this work the long-existing fiction concerning an insular California was definitely and finally removed"); Sabin 22569.