North America by Philippe Buache, 1752

The northern and western parts of the continent were subject to misinterpretation of data. The obsession with finding a northwest passage and providing some idea of the geography of the continent west of the Rockies was haunting. It would be decades before the map of Canada was complete.

Catalogue entry:
Buache, Phillippe, 1700-1773.
Carte des nouvelles découvertes au nord de la mer du Sud tant à l’est de la Siberie et du Kamtchatka qu’à l’ouest de la Nouvelle France / dressée sur les mémoires de Mr. Del’Isle ... par Phillippe Buache ... — Scale [ca. 1:21 000 000]. — À Paris : [Phillippe Buache] Quay de l’Horloge, [1752]. — 1 map ; 37 x 63 cm , on sheet 56 x 76 cm. —

Ref. No.: NMC 021056