‘Indispensable for the History of Discovery in the Northern Pacific’
MÜLLER, Gerhard Friedrich.
Voyages from Asia to America, for completing the Discoveries of the North West Coast of America. To which is prefixed, a Summary of the Voyages made by the Ru sians [sic] on the frozen Sea, in search of a North East Passage … Translated from the High Dutch of S. Muller, of the Royal Academy of Petersburgh. With the Addition of three new Maps … By Thomas Jefferys, Geographer to his Majesty. The second Edition.
Second edition (first 1761) of this key work devoted to discoveries in northeastern Asia and northwestern America, including the Bering Strait, published by Thomas Jefferys, geographer to George III, ‘remembered in particular for some of the most important eighteenth-century maps of the Americas’ (ODNB).
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