Title: Nuove Scoperte de' Russi al Nord del Mare del Sud si nell' Asia, che nell' America Author: Zatta, Antonio Place: Venice Publisher: Antonio Zatta Date: 1776-[1785?] Description: Copper-engraved map, hand-colored in outline hand-colored pictorial cartouche of exotic animals. 30.5x39.5 cm. (12x15½"). Shows the Northwest of America, the Bering Strait and Kamtschatka. The chimerical Northwest Passage and Straits of Anian (just north of "Fou-Sang", the equally mythical Chinese colony) are clearly depicted. Though dated 1776, the map was issued as No. 15 in Zatta's Atlas, I, dated 1779-1785. Wagner notes "A Vaugondy mixture of old and new names as far south as the end of the peninsula." Wagner, NW Coast, 654. Lot Amendments Condition: Fine. Item number: 172302
Title: Nuove Scoperte de' Russi al Nord del Mare del Sud si nell' Asia, che nell' America Author: Zatta, Antonio Place: Venice Publisher: Antonio Zatta Date: 1776-[1785?] Description: Copper-engraved map, hand-colored in outline hand-colored pictorial cartouche of exotic animals. 30.5x39.5 cm. (12x15½"). Shows the Northwest of America, the Bering Strait and Kamtschatka. The chimerical Northwest Passage and Straits of Anian (just north of "Fou-Sang", the equally mythical Chinese colony) are clearly depicted. Though dated 1776, the map was issued as No. 15 in Zatta's Atlas, I, dated 1779-1785. Wagner notes "A Vaugondy mixture of old and new names as far south as the end of the peninsula." Wagner, NW Coast, 654. Lot Amendments Condition: Fine. Item number: 172302
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