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A volume containing three works concerned with the Delisle-Buache controversy over the geography of the North Pole

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Exposé des découvertes au nord de la Grande Mer;

Considérations géographiques et physiques sur les nouvelles découvertes au nord de la Grande Mer; Explication de la carte nouvelles découvertes au nord de la Mer du Sud.

DELISLE, Joseph-Nicolas and Philippe BUACHE
Three parts in one volume (260 by 205 mm): title, 2pp; title, 160pp, 11 folding maps, nine with original hand colour, five folding plates with original hand colour; title, 18pp, one folding map with original colour, slightly water stained. Modern vellum binding, gilt tooling to spine, red morocco title label, gilt lettering.
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A volume containing three works concerned with the Delisle-Buache controversy over the geography of the North Pole, "of the greatest rarity and importance for the history of the discovery and cartography of Alaska and the Northwest coast in general" (Lada-Mocarski). The first work is 'Exposé des découvertes au nord de la Grande Mer' by Philippe Buache, a short pamphlet outlining the discoveries made by the different European nations at the North Pole.

The second...

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bibliography:

Valerian Lada-Macorski, Bibliography of Books on Alaska Published before 1868, (Yale: Yale University Press, 1969); Glyndwr Williams, Voyages of Delusion: The Quest for the Northwest Passage (Yale: Yale University Press, 2003).