Carte Particuliere de la Còte du Nord-Quest de L Amerique reconnue par les Fregates Francaifes la Boussole et L...

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Copper Engraving, uncolored by La Perouse, Jean-Francois de Galup, published 1786 by Paris. Image size: 495 by 685mm (19 by 27 inches). By Lapérouse — among the rarest and most historically important charts of the Northwest Coast ever produced. Jean-François de Galaup, Comte de Lapérouse (1741–1788), was the foremost French navigator and explorer of the late 18th century. Commissioned by Louis XVI to lead a major scientific and commercial expedition to the Pacific, he departed Brest in 1785 with two frigates — the Boussole and the Astrolabe — and spent three years charting the Pacific and North American coasts with extraordinary precision. His charts of the Northwest Coast of North America (1786) were the first scientific surveys of many sections of that coastline and were published posthumously in the celebrated four-volume Voyage de Lapérouse autour du monde (1797). The expedition disappeared without trace near Vanikoro in 1788. Lapérouse's charts are among the most historically important and rarest maps of the Pacific and Northwest Coast ever produced. This antique map of Carte Particuliere de la Còte du Nord-Quest de L Amerique r was published in 1786 by Paris (495 by 685mm (19 by 27 inches).). It is printed as a copper engraving, uncolored. The map documents the region with careful attention to rivers, settlements, roads, and political boundaries, reflecting the geographical knowledge available at the time of publication and offering an invaluable primary source for historians and collectors of North American antique cartography. In excellent condition. 495 by 685mm (19 by 27 inches).

La Perouse, Jean-Francois de Galup – Carte Particuliere de la Còte du Nord-Quest de L Ameri... · Antique Map, Copper Engraving · 495 x 685mm · Paris 1786