1655 Joan Blaeu Antique Map of Japan, Korea & parts of China - Beautiful Alaska while Captain Charles Clerke commanded

while Captain Charles Clerke commanded HMS Discovery

Paper size: - 21in x 19in (535mm x 480mm)

Performed under the direction of Captains Cook

had used neither the astronomical observations for latitude and longitude made by Marquis Joseph Bernard de Chabert in the 1740s nor a 1715 chart of the Nova Scotia coast

Diana Efesina and the bas-relief of Medea

1655 Joan Blaeu Antique Map of Japan, Korea & parts of China - Beautiful Alaska while Captain Charles Clerke commandedTitle : Japonia Regnum Date : 1655 Condition: (A+) Fine Condition Ref: 92811 Size: 24in x 21in (610mm x 535mm) Description: This fine beautifully hand coloured original antique map of Japan & Korea the seventeenth and last of the maps provided by the Jesuit priest Martino Martini to Joan Blaeu was published by Joan Blaeu in his 1665 edition of Atlas Simenis. Martinis map was to provide the most accurate depiction of the general outlines of the