Detail View: JCB Map Collection: Carte du nouvel Archipel du Nord decouvert par les Russes dans la Mer de Kamtschatka et d'Anadir.
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Accession Number:
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09872
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File Name:
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09872-2
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Call number:
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J774 S778v
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Map title:
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Carte du nouvel Archipel du Nord decouvert par les Russes dans la Mer de Kamtschatka et d'Anadir.
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Place of Publication:
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Stuttgart
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Publisher:
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[bey Christoph Friedrich Cotta]
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Publication date:
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[1774]
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Map size height:
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20.2 cm.
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Map size width:
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27.6 cm.
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Item description:
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fold-out engraved map; following p. 40
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Geographical description:
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Map of Kamchatka and the Bering Strait with part of North America (present-day Alaska). Cartographic elements include location of rivers and islands, some topographical details, lines of latitude and longitude, and routes taken by the three Russian ships which arrived at Kamchatka in 1648, Captain Vitas Jonassen Bering in 1728 and 1741, and Lieutenant Sindo in 1764, 1765, 1766, and 1767. Decorative elements include a vignette of a family, perhaps Eskimo, fishing. Also includes fish, reindeer or caribou, dwelling, and volcano.
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Source author:
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Staehlin von Storcksburg, Jakob, 1708-1785
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Source title:
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Das von den Russen in den Jahren 1765, 66, 67 entdekte nordliche Insel-Meer, zwischen Kamtschatka und Nordamerika, ...
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Source place:
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Stuttgart : bey Christoph Friedrich Cotta, Hof- und Canzley-Buchdrucker, 1774
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References:
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http://www.pbagalleries.com/catalogs/curcat136-6.html (May 2007)
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Geographic Area:
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Polar
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Historical notes:
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This is the German original of the work. It is based in large part on the reports of Russian traders who, under a convoy from the Admiralty, commanded by Lieutenant Sindo, spent 1764-67 exploring the North Pacific. The map shows the western part of Alaska (the Seward Peninsula) as an island, and the rest of Alaska is designated as "Amerique." The Eskimos shown here are most likely Yupiks from the Kamchatka peninsula, a volcanic area in the Russian Far East.Kilian is probably Georg Christoph Kilian, German engraver, collector, and cartographer (1709-1781).Cf. Staehlin von Storcksburg, An account of the new northern archipelago, ... London, 1774 (03072-1).
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Normalized date:
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1774
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Creator:
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Ionath. Lenz
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Creator:
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G. C. Kilian
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