Carte Particuliere de la Cote du Nord-Ouest de l’Amerique reconnue par les Fregates Francaises la Boussole et l’ Astrolabe en 1786 3e. Jean Francois Galaup de La Perpuse. Atlas du voyage de La Perouse. (540 x 810 mm) (490 x 680 mm). A large-format map of the coasts of Northern California and Oregon from the epic voyage of the Jean-François de Galaup, Comte de La Pérouse, becoming the first non-Spaniards to visit Spanish Colonial California. This fine map embraces the West Coast from Monterey, California to up a point in Oregon just south of the mouth of the Columbia River. The account of the voyage is notable for its inclusion of harbor charts of San Francisco, Monterey and San Diego Bays, although this chart does not show La Perouse’s ships entering San Francisco Bay. Jean-François de Galaup, Comte de La Pérouse (1741-88) was a French naval officer and scientist. In response to Cooks’s epic Pacific Voyages (1768-80), the French government appointed La Perouse to lead an expedition to explore the regions that were left uncharted by Cook. Please contact me if you haveany questions. This is a guaranteed ORIGINALPRINT from the period of creation, NOT a reproduction. The item “Port of San Francisco and Port de Monterey, La Pérouse 1797″ is in sale since Monday, March 5, 2018. This item is in the category “Antiques\Maps, Atlases & Globes\North America Maps”. The seller is “terranovamaps” and is located in Buenos Aires. This item can be shipped worldwide.
- Condition: Used
- Cartographer/Publisher: La Perouse’s
- Mexican State: Baja California
- Printing Technique: Copper Plate
- Original/Reproduction: Antique Original
- Canadian Province: california
- Year: 1797
- US State: California
- Date Range: 1700-1799
- City: St diego
- Country/Region: United States of America