Map of Northern Asia – Delamarche c.1794
Rare 18th century map of the Kamatchaka peninsula by C.F Delamarche. Covers Northern Asia, Chinese Tartary, Korea, Japan, and Russian Far East.
A rare 18th century map of the Kamatchaka peninsula by C.F Delamarche, the successor of Robert de Vaugondy. Covers Northern Asia, Chinese Tartary, Korea, Japan, and Russian Far East. Japan’s Hokkaido labeled as “Terre del Jeso”. The Great Wall of China is marked.
Published in 1794-1806.
Artists and Engravers: Charles-François Delamarche (1740 – 1817) was a French geographer and mapmaker. One of the most important French geographers and mapmakers of the second half of the eighteenth century. Successor to Nicolas Sanson (1600 – 1667), Robert de Vaugondy (1686 – 1766), and Rigobert Bonne (1727 – 1794), whose atlases he reprinted.
Conditions: Good, age-related toning.
Measurements: 440 x 320 mm
Purchase code: BG-12009
