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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bibliography:
provenance:
A striking map of Pakistan from the 1482 Ulm Ptolemy
Michele Marieschi’s suite of views of Venice from the library of Louis XV
The First Commercial Building in London, and the Earliest English Copper Engraved Topographical Print
Speed’s map of China
The author’s copy of the plan of Shanghai
Aden: the “choke point” between the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean
Seller and Price’s extremely rare chart of the Southern Atlantic
The Arabian Sea
Hollar’s portrait of a Turkish man 


