A Mirror of the World: Five Centuries of Geographical Atlases
A Yakut shaman invoking spirits to cure a sick person.
Engraved by Englishman Sanders. 1803. To the p. 30
1pl. 40х31 cm. Copperplate engraving.
View of the merchant Shelekhov's settlement on the island Kadyak in the harbour of Manikaksyak or Three Saints.
1pl. 40х31 cm. Copperplate engraving.
From: [Atlas of Maps and Drawings of the Voyage in the Noth-East Part of Russia and on the Islands of the Northen Part of the Pacific Ocean by the Fleet of Captain G.Sarychev.
St.-Petesburg, 1802].
1 vol. (without its title-page, 51 pl. of maps and drawings) 43х55 cm.
Copperplate engraving.
Shelfmark: К 2-Тих 8/54
The atlas is a supplement to the book the Travels of Fleet Captain Sarychev in the Northeastern Part of Siberia, the Arctic Sea [Arctic Ocean] and Eastern [Pacific] Ocean in the Course of Eight Years on the Geographic and Astronomical Naval Expedition under Fleet Captain Billings from 1785 to 1793 (Puteshestvie flota kapitana Carycheva po severo-vostochnomi chasti Sibiri, Ledovitomu Moryu i Vostochnomu okeanu, v prodolzhenii os'mi let pri geograficheskoi i astronomicheskoi Morskoi ekspeditsii, byvshei pod nahal'stvom flota kapitana Billingsa s 1785 po 1793 goda). St.-Petersburg, 1802.
During the expedition, Gavriil Sarychev made astronomical measurements and determinations and collected divers data which were used to compile new maps. Among them are maps representing part of the coast of the Arctic Ocean around the mouth of the Kolyma River, parts of the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk, parts of the coastline of Kamchatks, and also maps of several gulfs on the islands of Unalashka and Kadyak and the coast of Alaska. The Atlas comprised fifteen maps, as well as, some illustrations with views of the coastline and harbours, plus drawings depicting the appearance and
ways of living of the inhabitants of that places.
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