Carte des Isles Kouriles, d'après la Carte Russe.
Dressée et Gravée Pour l'Histoire Generale des Voyages
[Amsterdam,
Covens and Mortier,
1779].
Engraved map.
271 by 312mm. (10.75 by 12.25 inches).
15899
notes:
A map of the Kuril Islands by Hendrik Klockhoff (fl.1777-1798), a Dutch engraver active in Amsterdam.
Klockhoff has re-engraved a map prepared by Jacques Nicolas Bellin for the Abbé Prévost's 'Histoire des Voyages', which was in turn based on a larger Dutch map of Russia.
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Klockhoff has re-engraved a map prepared by Jacques Nicolas Bellin for the Abbé Prévost's 'Histoire des Voyages', which was in turn based on a larger Dutch map of Russia.
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provenance:
One of the largest civil engineering projects in eighteenth century Scotland
“One of the most attractive ptolemaic world maps produced”
Covent Garden
“more knowledge of the Eastern Seas than perhaps any other man”
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