"Carte d'Asie Dressee pour l'Instruction...", Delisle/Dezauche

This scarce map of Asia is a revision of Delisle's 1700 map of the continent. In this map, Dezauche completes the coastline of northeastern Siberia between Novaya Zemlya and Japan, with Novaya Zemlya correctly shown as an island and the peninsula of Kamchatka now appearing. A small inset at top right shows the northeastern tip of the continent with a rudimentary Alaska with the note that Captain Cook had been stopped by the ice in that area. The Sea of Japan is noted as Mer de Coree. Hokkaido (Isle de Ieso) is no longer attached to Japan but is still poorly shaped. To the east are the conjectural islands of Terre de la Compagnie and Terre de J. de Gama, which is also labeled Kia-ytao.

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Condition: A

A crisp impression with contemporary outline color on a bright sheet with the watermarks of "B[heart]R" and rosary beads. There is very minor soiling in the image and light, extraneous creasing adjacent to the centerfold. There are dampstains in the bottom corners of the sheet, not affecting the image.