Title of the map:

"VUES DE QUELQUES CAPS ET ILES DE LA COTE DU NORD OUEST ET DES COTES DU SUD-OUEST et DU SUD DE L'AMERIQUE"

Large copper engraved map of eight profil views of Northwest America, Mexico and South America, by George Vancouver. The plate is engraved by Michel.

It presents, from top: the Tscherikow Islands, Port Chatman, Cape Hamond, Cape Ommaney, Cabo San Lucas, San Blas, Cape Corientes, Diego Ramirez and Cape Horn, and Valparaiso at Point Quraumilla. 

Combining his own explorations with earlier Spanish and British discoveries, George Vancouver, who had sailed with Capt. Cook on his third voyage, compiled the best delineation of the Pacific Northwest at the time, but he also explored the coasts of Antarctica, South America and Mexico.

Vancouver and his officers draw these views when they travelled in Pacific Northwest in 1791-94. 

Captain George Vancouver (1757-1798) was a British Royal Navy officer best known for his 1791-1795 expedition, which explored and charted North America's northwestern Pacific Coast regions, including the coasts of what are now the Canadian province of British Columbia as well as the US states of Alaska, Washington, Oregon, and California. The expedition also explored the Hawaiian Islands and the southwest coast of Australia.

Vancouver Island, the city of Vancouver in British Columbia, Vancouver River on the Sunshine Coast of British Columbia, Vancouver, Washington in the United States, Mount Vancouver on the Canadian-US border between Yukon and Alaska, and New Zealand's fourth-highest mountain, also Mount Vancouver, are all named after him.

Size with margins : 64 x 45,5 cm / 25,1 x 17,7 inches

Condition : good condition, on strong paper

Edition : Paris, 1799, 18th century. Plate N°16.

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Due to the age an type of paper, some imperfections are to be expected. Please examine the images provided carefully, and if you have any questions please ask and we will be happy to help you