COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Map Collection
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JCB Map Collection
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Accession Number:
09274
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09274
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false
File Name:
09274-4
file_name
09274-4
File Name
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Call number:
E799 L311vr (copy 1)
call_number
E799 L311vr (copy 1)
Call number
false
Map title:
Plan of Port des Français on the North West Coast of America, ... Discovered July 2d, 1786. ...
map_title
Plan of Port des Français on the North West Coast of America, ... Discovered July 2d, 1786. ...
Map title
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Place of Publication:
[London]
place_of_publication
[London]
Place of Publication
false
Publisher:
[J. Johnson]
publisher
[J. Johnson]
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false
Publication date:
[1799]
publication_date
[1799]
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false
Map size height:
17.5 cm.
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17.5 cm.
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false
Map size width:
18.8 cm.
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18.8 cm.
Map size width
false
Item description:
fold-out engraved map; vol. 2, following p. 94
item_description
fold-out engraved map; vol. 2, following p. 94
Item description
false
Geographical description:
Map of the bay named by La Perouse, Port des Français, now known as Lituya Bay, in present-day Alaska. Cartographic elements include scale, compass rose, locations of bodies of water, glaciers, rivers and streams, and soundings.
geographical_description
Map of the bay named by La Perouse, Port des Français, now known as Lituya Bay, in present-day Alaska. Cartographic elements include scale, compass rose, locations of bodies of water, glaciers, rivers and streams, and soundings.
Geographical description
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Source author:
La Pérouse, Jean-François de Galaup, comte de, 1741-1788
source_author
La Pérouse, Jean-François de Galaup, comte de, 1741-1788
Source author
false
Source title:
[Voyage de La Pérouse autour du monde. English] A voyage round the world in the years 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788 ...
source_title
[Voyage de La Pérouse autour du monde. English] A voyage round the world in the years 1785, 1786, 1787, and 1788 ...
Source title
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Source place:
London: : Printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church Yard., 1799
source_place
London: : Printed for J. Johnson, St. Paul's Church Yard., 1799
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false
Geographic Area:
North America
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North America
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false
Historical notes:
La Perouse was the first European to discover this bay; he bought it from a local native American chief and claimed it for France. On July 13, 1786, a barge and two longboats carrying 21 men were lost in the extremely strong tidal currents. In 1958 it was the site of the highest known tsunami. The French decided to mount a scientific and exploration voyage to rival that of Captain James Cook. Two ships, the Boussole and the Astrolabe, under La Perouse's command left France in August 1785. They spent the summer of 1786 off the coasts of Alaska looking for a northwest passage then sailed down the west coast of North America in August and September 1786. In September they crossed the Pacific Ocean to Asia. They first sailed north and then south to Australia which they reached in January 1788. In mid-March both ships were wrecked on a coral reef near the island of Vanikoro with all hands lost. Thirty years later remains were found, and islanders reported that survivors had built a boat and headed out to sea, but none were ever heard from again.La Perouse sent letters back to Europe from Manila, Macao, and Australia; this is how the voyage is known. In October 1787 he had also sent a Russian-speaking officer, Jean Baptiste Barthélemy, Baron de Lesseps (1766-1834) overland from Kamchatka with documents, charts, and journals. De Lesseps traveled through Siberia to St. Petersburg and then to Paris, arriving late in 1788. In May 1791, when it seemed clear that La Pérouse would not return, the revolutionary government commissioned former army officer Louis Antoine Milet-Mureau (1756-1825) to edit a book from these materials, which was published in Paris in four volumes with an atlas in 1797. A second French edition was required the following year, and English translations appeared in 1798, 1799, 1801, and 1807; German and Dutch editions were published between 1799 and 1804.
historical_notes
La Perouse was the first European to discover this bay; he bought it from a local native American chief and claimed it for France. On July 13, 1786, a barge and two longboats carrying 21 men were lost in the extremely strong tidal currents. In 1958 it was the site of the highest known tsunami. The French decided to mount a scientific and exploration voyage to rival that of Captain James Cook. Two ships, the Boussole and the Astrolabe, under La Perouse's command left France in August 1785. They spent the summer of 1786 off the coasts of Alaska looking for a northwest passage then sailed down the west coast of North America in August and September 1786. In September they crossed the Pacific Ocean to Asia. They first sailed north and then south to Australia which they reached in January 1788. In mid-March both ships were wrecked on a coral reef near the island of Vanikoro with all hands lost. Thirty years later remains were found, and islanders reported that survivors had built a boat and headed out to sea, but none were ever heard from again.La Perouse sent letters back to Europe from Manila, Macao, and Australia; this is how the voyage is known. In October 1787 he had also sent a Russian-speaking officer, Jean Baptiste Barthélemy, Baron de Lesseps (1766-1834) overland from Kamchatka with documents, charts, and journals. De Lesseps traveled through Siberia to St. Petersburg and then to Paris, arriving late in 1788. In May 1791, when it seemed clear that La Pérouse would not return, the revolutionary government commissioned former army officer Louis Antoine Milet-Mureau (1756-1825) to edit a book from these materials, which was published in Paris in four volumes with an atlas in 1797. A second French edition was required the following year, and English translations appeared in 1798, 1799, 1801, and 1807; German and Dutch editions were published between 1799 and 1804.
Historical notes
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Normalized date:
1799
normalized_date
1799
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