Collection: Osher Map Library Collection

Name: Carte phisique de la Mer Glaciale arctique où se voyent les particularités de cette mer, et du bassin terrestre qui l'environne avec l'indication de diverses communications supposées de rivieres qui ne font que par des partages à travers le chaines de montagnes.

Barcode: 57575

Image Number: 57575.0001

Creator: Buache, Philippe, 1700-1773

Publishing Location: Paris

Brief Description: Map of the Northern Hemisphere illustrating the Russian discoveries in the Northwest, the Northwest Passage. It also depicts the mythical Bay of the West, a theoretical routes from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Phillipe Buache was a French geographer known for inventing a new system of geography. Trained under the geographer Guillaume Delisle, Buache established the division of the world by seas and river systems.

Date/Date Range Produced: 1754

Language: French

Region Depicted: Arctic OceanAtlantic OceanNorthwest PassagePacific Coast

Map Type: GeographicalHistorical maps

Dimensions: Globe illustration: 20 cm in diameter. Sheet: 23 x 32 cm

LC Call Number: G9780 1754.B8

OCLC: 1331408370

Accession Number: OML-1754-7

Permanent URL: https://oshermaps.org/map/57575.0001