The Russian Discoveries from the Map Published by the Imperial Academy of St. Petersburg.

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• ARTIST: Robert Sayer

• PUBLISHER: London, Printed for Robt. Sayer. . .Published as the Act Directs March 2d. 1775.

• MEDIUM: Copper plate engraving,

  DATE: 1775

• EDITION SIZE: Image size 17 3/4 x 24" (45 x 51 cm) plus margins.

• DESCRIPTION: The first English edition of Muller's map of the NW Coast of America and NE Coast of Asia, based upon reports from J.N. De L'Isle in St. Petersburg and others. Includes a massive conjectural land mass approximating the Alaskan Archipelago and continuing southward with a marvelous treatment of the NW Coast, prior to Cook's arrival. The discoveries of Sir Francis Drake, Martin D'Aguilar, Juan De Fuca, Admiral De Font, Tschrikow, Bering and Gwosdew are all noted, as is the massive River of the West, flowing straight from the Oregon Coastline to Lake Winnigon and the on the Hudson's Bay via Nelson River and other unnamed Rivers.

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• CONDITION: Good condition. Original outline handcoloring.

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• CATEGORIES: Maps