Bucareli Bay

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Plan of the Entrance of the Port of Bucarelli

on the North West Coast of America.

LA PEROUSE, Jean-Francois de Galaup, comte de; Francisco Antonio MOURELLE DE LA RUA; and Juan Francisco BODEGA Y QUADRA
London,
G.G. & J. Robinson, Paternoster Row,
Nov 1st 1798.
Double-page engraved chart.
405 by 520mm (16 by 20.5 inches).
22659

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A chart of Bucareli Bay, in Alaska, first named in a 1775 by Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra, commander of the ship 'Sonora', in honour of Antonio Maria de Bucareli y Ursúa, the Viceroy of New Spain. With a long note: "*This longitude is determined by La Pérouse's chart of the north west coast of America; the Spanish chart from which the present plan has been reduced fixes the longitude of Port Bucarelli at 140°15'".

Published in the 'Charts and Plates to La...

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Hill, 'Pacific', 975.

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