"Nouvelle Carte des decouvertes… par des Vaisseaux Russiens…" SANTINI 1784 map
Artist/engraver/cartographer: Santini, Paolo. Provenance: "Atlas Universel, dressé sur les meilleures cartes modernes", 1784 à Venise par P. Santini, rue Ste Justine, chez M. Remondini. Type: Large antique 18th century atlas map, printed on thick, good quality paper with original outline hand colour/color and decorative title cartouche. This is the Santini/Remondini updated edition of Gerhard Muller's landmark 1754 map showing the discoveries of Captains Bering and Chirikov, the first Russians to reach the North-West coast of North America. The map is a very approximate reflection of the actual shape of Alaska and the Pacific northwest coast, reflecting the limitations of European knowledge of the region at the time. Muller, a German scholar who worked for the Russian Imperial Academy of Sciences, originally published his map in response to Delisle/Buache's speculative map that included the supposed discoveries of the (fabricated) Admiral de Fonte. Muller's original map was updated several times as European knowledge of the region increased
Size: 8093px × 6131px
Location: Pacific
Photo credit: © Antiqua Print Gallery / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
Model Released: No
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