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P-NW101 - LA PEROUSE "Plan De L'Entree du Port De Bucarelli sur la Cote du Nord Ouest de L'Amerique" Paris 1797. B/W. 19½X27. Fine chart based on the manuscript maps of Maurelle & Quadra represents the northernmost explorations by Spanish navigators. It was named after New Spain's Viceroy, and Bucarelli Sound at 55°15'N was for a time thought to be the entrance to the northwest passage. It is located about 50 miles west of Ketchikan. The chart shows many soundings around the harbor shoreline. Locates Golfo De Esquibel. Is. De St. Fernando, Is. St.Juan Baptista. Puerto de la Real Marina and shows points and bays, channels and many small islands.

P-NW110 - G. VANCOUVER "Cote Nord-Ouest De L'Amerique Reconnue par le Cap (e) Vancouver.. 2(e) Partie.." Paris 1799. 29X24. B/W as issued. Large scale chart shows coastal topography with elevations from Pointe Barre de Arena & Cap Mendocino to Cape Foulweather and Cape Lookout in Oregon including Mouut Hood. Tracks of Vancouver's ships the 'Discovery' and the 'Chatham' are depicted along the coast with dates and a finely detailed inset chart of 'Bale de La Trinidad' is shown with soundings. A finely detailed chart from the Paris Edition of 'Voyage de Vancouver' from George Vancouver's surveys of the Pacific Northwest and the coast of California. 

P-NW111A - G. VANCOUVER “Cote Nord-Ouest De L'Amerique Reconnue par le Cap. Vancouver. 1st Partie.” Paris. 1799. B/W. 30X24. In 1791 Capt. George Vancouver was appointed by the Royal Navy in London, to command an expedition of discovery to America's Pacific Northwest coast. After sailing to the Pacific by way of the Cape of Good Hope, he reached Tahiti on December 30. After a stay of 3 weeks, and then a month spent in Hawaii, he sighted the California coast near Cape Mendocino on April 18, 1792. From here he made detailed surveys of Juan de Fuca and Puget Sounds and then explored down the coast to San Francisco which he reached in November 1792, taking depth soundings and visiting the Presidio at the entrance to the Bay. Due to stormy weather he returned to Hawaii for the winter, but in April of 1793 he was back on the California coast, surveying from Nootka on the island named for him (Vancouver), down to San Francisco again, from whence he continued southward to Santa Barbara and the Channel Islands, reaching San Diego and finally Santa Domingo in December of 1793. This fine chart shows the tracks of Vancouver's ship the “Discovery” down the coast in 1792 and 1793. Included also at the top of the chart are two insets 1. Entrance to the Port of San Francisco and 2. Port of San Diego. Both insets show hydrographical details of the harbors with depth soundings and shoreline contours. From the French edition of “A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean and Round the World....under the Command of Capt. George Vancouver.” Published in London in 1798 and in Paris in 1799.

P-NW118 - U. S. COAST SURVEY "St. Paul Harbor, Kadiak Island." Wash. 1869. 9X11½. B/W. Litho. Many soundings in the harbor from Russian Authorities. Locates Devils Bay, Millers Cape, Outer Spruce Cape. Kadiak Rock. Wooded Is. Long or Bare Is. Womens Bay. South and North Channels. Roadstead. Popoff or Priest Bay and Middle Bay.

P-NW125 - U. S. COAST & GEODETIC SURVEY "General Chart of Alaska" Wash. D. C. 1890-1896 27¼X49½. B/W. Large striking chart shows all of the Alaskan Territory. Berings Strait, Arctic Ocean. Eastern Siberia. Kamchatka, the Gulf of Alaska. The Aleutian Islands. Intensely detailed soundings throughout. Shows capes, bays, banks, inlets, sounds, rivers, channels. Many offshore islands. A fine chart.

P-NW129 - BRITISH ADMIRALTY "Canada West Coast. British Columbia. 'Queen Charlotte and Johnstone Straits and Adjacent Channels.' Johnstone & Broughton Straits surveyed by Commdr. Simpson. R.N. H.M. Surveyeing ship 'Egeria' 1901-1902. Also surveyed by D. Pender, R. N. 1863-65. Adjusted to positions supplied by Geodetic Survey of Canada 1930. Published & engraved 1935. (1944/1958 Small corrections to 1971. 26X41. Shows Seymour Inlet, Drury Inlet, Broughton Is. Gilford Is. Turnour Is. Hardwicke Is. Knight Inlet. Very detailed shoreline topography. Detailed soundings in fathoms, buoys, beacons, shoals, courses, channels & navigational notes. Chart 581. 

P-NW133 - BRITISH ADMIRALTY "North America. West Coast." Juan de Fuca Strait. Port Angeles." Originally published & engraved. London. 1897. From U. S. Govt. charts of 1949 with additions & corrections to 1951 (1961). 20X26. Chart #1717. Shows Ediz Hook. Block plan, buildings & wharves at Port Angeles. Detailed soundings in fathoms, beacons, buoys, courses, channels & navigational notes. 

P-NW135 - BRITISH ADMIRALTY "Cape Caution to Quatsino Sound" From Canadian charts to 1948. Published & engraved 1950. Issued 1959. Corrections to 1979. Originally published from surveys 1860, 1902/3. London. 26½X39. Chart 582. Shows Vancouver Island & Quatsino Sound, Queen Charlotte Sound & Strait, Cox Island & Lanz Is.Hope Is & Goletas Channel. Very detailed island topography. Shows Cape Scott & Channel. Depicts very detailed soundings, courses, channel, bearings, beacons, tides. (British Columbia.)

P-NW136 - BRITISH ADMIRALTY "North America. West Coast." Plans in British Columbia". From surveys by Capt. G. H. Richards RN. Surveying ship 'Plumper" 1860. & Lieut. Commdr. J. D. Nares. surveying ship "Egeria" 1910. with additions & corrections to 1952. Published & engraved 1913.. New editions 1930 & 1952 to 1970. 5 inset charts on one sheet. 26X39. Chart 585.

1.Strait of Georgia, Baker Passage. 
2.Texada Island. Blubber Bay. 
3.Malaspina Strait. Powell River 
4.Desolation Sound. Prideaux surveyed 1864. 
5.Texada, Sturt Bay & Vananda Cove. 

Very detailed soundings, courses, beacons, buoys, shoals, dangers. 

P-NW137 - R. BONNE/J. COOK "Carte De La Riviere De Cook dans la partie N.O. De L'Amerique Par M.Bonne Ingenieur Hydrographe de la Marine" Paris 1784. Colored. 9X13 Fine chart shows Cook's River and inlet with first showing of Anchorage region. Depicts the River Turn Again and many soundings into Cook's River with tracks of his ships. Detailed coastal topography shows Prince William Sound, Mount St. Augustin, Isle Montagu, Cape Suckling & Baye du Controle. Includes an inset chart titled "Plan du, Havre de Samganooda dans 1'Isle de Oonalaska (Aleutian Isles.)" Large colorful compass rose with fleur de lys motif is engraved in centre of chart. 

P-NW138 - J. MALHAM'S NAVAL GAZETTEER "A Correct Chart of the West Coast of North America from Bhering's Straits to Nootka Sound." London. T. Cadell. 1801. Colored. 7½X9½. Attractive chart shows coastal topography from Bherings Strait to Nootka Sound and shows Cape Prince of Wales, Bristol Bay, Cooks River, Prince William Sound, Mt. St. Elias, Cape Fairweather, Dixons Entrance, Queen Charlotte's Isles, Princess Royal Islands;: Charlotte Sound & Nootka. Chart is finely engraved with a large compass rose in center with fleur de lys motif. The Kamtchatska Sea & the North Pacific Ocean are crossed by rhumb lines and the title is in fine calligraphy in an oval. A scarce chart with fine color. 

P-NW141 - U. S. COAST SURVEY "Preliminary Chart of Entrance to Koos Bay, Oregon." Wash. D. C. 1862. Colored. 14½X17. Very detailed chart shows soundings in the entrance and in Koos Bay. Locates Koos Head, Tunnel Pt. Yokam, Cape Gregory. The South Slough. Fossil Pt. Shows shoals, breakers, bottoms, location of wreck inside the entrance. Includes navigational notes. 

P-NW144 - U. S. COAST SURVEY "Preliminary Survey of the Mouth of the Columbia River" Oregon Territory" and "Cape Hancock (or Disappointment) Oregon." Shows the proposed site for a lighthouse. 1851. 9½X8. B/W. Two small charts on one sheet.

P-NW145 - U. S. COAST SURVEY "Mouth of the Columbia River" 1851. B/W. 17X26½. Very detailed chart shows soundings, sailing directions, tides, bottoms. Approach view of the Entrance of the Columbia River. Cape Hancock. Township of Astoria.

P-NW148 - BONNE (R) “Carte De L'Entree de Norton et du Detroit De Behring” Paris 1788. 9½X13½. Colored. Compass rose, soundings, navigator's tracks, throughout  the region. Islands, capes and bays., off the Bering Straits and around Norton Sound. Cap Oriental and Baye de St. Laurent on the Asian side of the Straits. 

P-NW149 - U. S. COAST SURVEY "Alaska and Adjoining Territory" Wash. 1869. B/W. 23½X33½. Inset: Aleutian Islands. Very detailed survey of Alaska with many offshore islands and soundings. Rivers, sounds, capes and bays. Navigational notes.  Includes Bering Strait and Eastern Siberia, the North Pacific and Kygani or , Dixon Sound. A fine chart. 

P-NW180 - J. COOK “Carte de la Riviere De Cook, dans la partie N.O.de L'Amerique.” Paris 1784. Colored. 9¼X12. Fine chart engraved by Robert Bernard from a sketch drawn by one of the draughtsmen accompanying James Cook on his 3rd voyage of discovery to the Pacific and the Pacific Northwest in 1776-1780. Chart depicts the tracks of Cook's ships, the ‘Resolution’ and the ‘Discovery’ traversing the Alaskan coast in 1778 & entering Prince William Sound where they stayed briefly while the ships were repaired & re-caulked. Leaving the area they found an inlet, which they thought might be the entrance to a northwest passage, but after exploring its length it ended in snow-capped mountains, where present day Anchorage is located, & the ships turned back. Cook named it first, Cape Turn Again, and then Cook's River. Before sailing southwest again they took detailed soundings, and pursued a course around the Aleutian Islands. Attractive chart with fleur-de-lys pointer in center. From the French Edition of Cook's Voyages published in 1774-1785.

Engravings Below

In 1791 George Vancouver (1758-1798) an English sea captain was sent to America's Pacifc Northwest coast by the British Admiralty in London, to explore the coast and to prove or disprove the theory of the existence of a northwest passage across America's northern regions. Vancouver set sail in HMS ‘Discovery’ a ship of 350 tons, accompanied by the HMS ‘Chatham’ of 135 tons commanded by Lieut. Broughton. In the summer months of 1792, 93 and 94 he explored the California coast & north to Alaska, returning to England in 1795 with some of the most accurate surveys & sketches that had been done to date. The following 8 copper engravings of views of the Pacific Northwest are from the French Edition of Vancouver's Voyages. “Voyage de Decouvertes a l'Ocean Pacifique du Nord”, published in Paris in 1800.

P-NW183 - “Le Port Dick prés de L'Entree de Cook.” 7X9. Port Dick near the entrance to Cook's River, Alaska. 

P-NW187 - “Le Baye Glacee et le Mont St.Elie.” 7X9. Icy Bay & Mount St. Elias. Alaska. 

P-NW188 - “Village de Cheslakees dans le Detroit de Johnstone.” 7X9. Village of the Cheslakee Indians in Johnstone Strait, northeast of Vancouver Island & below Queen Charlotte's Sound. British Columbia.

Capt. James Cook's Third Voyage to the Pacific in 1776-1779

In the course of Capt. James Cook's third voyage to the Pacific in 1776-1779 he took his ships the Resolution and the Discovery to America's Pacific Northwest coast & in the summer of 1778 he made landfall first at Nootka, on Vancouver Island, then continuing along the coast he entered Prince William Sound in Alaska, and went on to discover Cook's River on his way to the Bering Strait. Turning southward in October of 1778 he reached the Aleutian Islands and anchored in the harbor of Unalaska to replenish provisions and repair the ships. Accompanying Capt. Cook on the voyage was a young, very talented artist/draughtsman from London, called John Webber, who employed his time drawing the natives and native scenes wherever Cook's ships anchored on the voyage. The following engravings were taken from Webber's original sketches & skillfully engraved by Robert Benard in Paris for the French edition of Cook's Voyages published in 1785.

P-NW195 - J. COOK/J. WEBBER “Une Femme De L'Entrée De Nootka.” Paris. 1785. B/W. A Woman from Nootka (with straw hat.)

P-NW196 - J. COOK/J. WEBBER “Divers Ouvrages Des Habitans De L'Entrée De Nootka.” Paris. 1785. B/W. Various articles made by the natives at Nootka.

P-NW198 - J. COOK/J. WEBBER “Une Femme De Oonalaska” Paris. 1785. B/W. 9X7. A Woman of Unalaska with nose ring ornament.

P-NW200 - J. COOK/J. WEBBER “Chapeaux Des Naturels D'Oonalashka.” Paris. 1785. B/W. 9X11. Hats made by the natives of Unalaska.

P-NW203 - J. COOK/J. WEBBER “Un Ours Blanc.” Paris. 1785. B/W. 7X9. A Polar Bear seen by James Cook & John Webber in Alaska.

P-NW205 - J. COOK/R. BENARD “Carte De La Cote N.O. de L'Amerique et de la Cote N. E. de L'Asie, reconnues en 1778 et 1779. Les Parties de la Cote d'Asie qui ne sont pas ombreés sont tirées d'une Cartes Manuscrits que nous donnerent les Russes.” Paris c. 1784. B/W. 15X26. After Capt. James Cook's death in Hawaii in february 1779, Charles Clerke, the Captain of Cook's ship “Discovery” took command of the “Resolution”, the primary vessel of Cook's Expeditiion to the Pacific, & John Gore, Cook's 1st Lieutenant took command of the “Discovery”. Together Clerke and Gore took the ships up to the Bering Strait & Russian Alaska to survey & chart the arctic regions, in order to fulfill Cook's own plans, now thwarted by his death. This finely engraved chart by Robert Benard, shows the tracks of Cook's ships in 1778 and 1779 along America's Pacific northwest coast to Prince William Sound & Cook's River, around the Aleutians and through the Bering Strait. Finding the region too icy to continue northward, the ships turned and headed down the Russian coast to Kamtchatka. From thence the ships returned to England via China, the East Indies & the Cape of Good Hope in South Africa. This chart is from the French Edition of “Cook's Voyages”.

P-NW206 - R. DE VAUGONDY. Sheet 1. “Cartes des Parties Nord et Ouest de L'Amerique dressee d'apres les relations les plus authentiques par M...en 1764. Nouvelle edition reduite par M. de Vaugondy en 1772.” Livourne 1779. B/W. 12X15. Chart of North America shows both east and west coasts, as well as Canada & Alaska. California & the Pacific Northwest coast to Alaska is still speculative & uncharted, whereas the east coast is depicted from Newfoundland, Nova Scotia & New England down to Florida and the Gulf Coast, showing Boston, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia and Georgia. Inland regions are primarily Indian lands and largely unexplored in the West. In 1772 Robert de Vaugondy, a well-known engraver in Paris produced a series of 10 charts based on the assumptions and speculatiions of the current scientists and navigators, regarding a Northwest Passage across the North American continent and another passage to the Indies via Asia. This 10 part series appeared in Denis Diderot's “Encyclopedie” in 1779, and this important chart is Sheet 1 and was copied from Samuel Engel's chart of 1764. Engel's theory being that a passage could exist because sea water doesn't freeze! Robert de Vaugondy was sufficiently open- minded to reproduce Engel's map as part of the series. Fine. 

P-NW207 - R. DE VAUGONDY Sheet 2. “Cartes des parties Nord et Est de l'Asie qui comprend Les Cotes De La Russie Asiatique Le Kamschatka, Le Jesso et Les Isles Du Japon dressee en 1760 par M.... Nouvelle Edition reduite par M. de Vaugondy.” Paris. 1772. B/W. 12X15. This map is based on Samuel Engel's chart of 1764 and is a pair to the map shown above in PNW206. In this map Engel had drawn the continuation of present day Alaska & the Bering Strait (Strait of Anian) over to Russian Kamschatka, & Japan and across the Russian Arctic seacoast to Norway and Sweden. Robert de Vaugondy revised Engel's map in 1772, which also shows the Aleutian Islands as 3 large blocks in upper right near the Bering Strait. A continuation from Sheet 1. This chart was #2 in the 10 part series prepared in 1772 by de Vaugondy for inclusion in Denis Diderot's “Encyclopedie” published in Livourne in 1779.

P-NW208 - R. DE VAUGONDY Sheet 3. “Nouvelle Representation Des Cotes Nord Est De L'Asie pour servir d'eclarcissement aux Articles du Supplements de Encyclopedie qui concernment les Passage aux Indes par le Nord Gravee sur le direction de M. de Vaugondy, en 1772.” Paris. 1772. B/W. 12X15. This is Sheet 3 of a 10 part series of maps drawn under the direction of a well known engraver in Paris in 1772, for inclusion in Denis Diderot's “Encyclopedie” based on the assumptions and speculations of the current scientists and navigators, regarding the possibility of a Northwest Passage across the North American continent and across Asia to the Indies. This map shows part of America's Pacific Northwest coast & Alaska with Russia and Japan in Asia. This early rendering of the northern regions is still entirely speculative but reprduces the concepts being discussed among the scientific societies in Europe in the late 18th century. Fine. 

P-NW209 - R. DE VAUGONDY (P. BUACHE) Sheet 6. “Carte Des Nouvelles Decouvertes dressee par Phil Buache Pr. Geogr. du Roi presentee a L'Acad. Des Sciences le 9 Aug. 1752 et approuvee dans son assemblee du 6 Septembre Suivant.” Paris. 1777. B/W. 12X15. This fine chart was drawn by Philip Buache in 1752, in two sections, top and bottom, to show the difference between European and Japanese cartographic concepts of America's Pacific Northwest coast to Alaska and the Bering Strait & the Russian coast of Kamtchaska, Siberia, Tartary, China and Japan. The top section of the chart represents the western concept & the bottom part is a Japanese chart of the same region, brought back to Europe by Englebert Kaempfer & given to Hans Sloane, the President of the Royal Society in London. The European chart still shows the mythical Sea of the West in California, but is much more detailed than the Japanese chart which is entirely fanciful & places Japan in the northern Pacific in close proximity to the coast of California.. This fascinating two part chart was published as Sheet 6 in a 10 part series prepared under the direction of Robert de Vaugondy, based on the speculations and assumptions of current scientists regarding the possibliity of discovering a Northwest Passage across the North American continent as well as a passage across Asia to the Indies. The series was published in Denis Diderot's “Encyclopedie” in 1779. Fine

P-NW210 - R. DE VAUGONDY (G.de L'ISLE) Sheet 7..“Carte Generale Des Decouvertes de l'Amiral de Fonte et autre Navigateurs Espagnole, Anglois et Russes pour le recherche du Passage a la Mer au Sud. Par M.de L'Isle de Academie Royale des Sciences Etc. Publiee a Paris en Septembre 1752.” Paris 1779. B/W. 11½X15. Chart is a fanciful depiction of the California coast and the Pacific Northwest to Alaska & the Bering Strait with Russian Kamtchatska. A large mythical Sea of the West is depicted in inland California near the coast, with a note saying it was discovered in 1592 by Juan de Fuca. The northern part of Alaska is noted as being discovered by Admiral de Fonte & his captains in 1640. Tracks of Spanish, English & Russian navigators are shown crossing the northern Pacific from Alaska to Russia and back in the early 1700's. The chart was engraved by Robert de Vaugondy & is based on De L'Isle's map of 1752 and published as Sheet 7 of a 10 part series in Denis Diderot's “Encyclopedie” in 1779. The 10 maps in the series, engraved under the direction of de Vaugondy, all dealt with the question of whether a Northwest Passage could be found crossing the North American Continent, and similarly whether a passage to the Indies could be found across Asia. Fine. 

P-NW211 - R. DE VAUGONDY (T. JEFFERYS) Sheet 8. “Carte Generale Des Decouvertes De L'Amiral De Fonte representant la grande probabilitié d'un Passage au Nord Ouest par Thomas Jefferys, Geographe du Roi a London. 1768.” Paris. 1772. B/W. 11½X15. This chart, originally drawn & engraved by Thomas Jefferys in London in 1768 was translated & re-engraved in Paris by Robert de Vaugondy. The chart depicts North America drawn on a spherical plane from Hudson's Bay in Canada to the Pacific Northwest & Alaska, showing a mythical river passage crossing the Continent from east to west and exiting on the Pacific coast in the general area of present day Vancouver Island & the Juan de Fuca Strait. Alaska is noted as being discovered by the Japanese & the Aleutian Islands are indicated as discovered by the Russians in 1741. Above the Arctic Circle is a Sea of Tartary inhabited by a “nation of pigmees”. This fine chart is an example of how little was known of the Pacific Northwest in 1768 and it wasn't until Capt. James Cook and George Vancouver brought back detailed surveys in the 1780's that European cartographers were able to correct their charts & eliminate so many of the mythical concepts that had appeared on earlier maps. This chart is Sheet 8 of a 10 part series of maps, engraved by Robert de Vaugondy a well known French engraver, for inclusion in Denis Diderot's “Encyclopedie” and the series dealt with the probability that a Northwest Passage might exist crossing the North American Continent and that similarly a passage could be found crossing Asia to the Indies. Fine.

GEORGE VANCOUVER (1758-1798)

In 1792-1795, Capt. George Vancouver explored America's Pacific Northwest coast surveying and charting while attempting to locate an entrance to a Northwest water passage across the North American continent. After his return to England in 1795, his charts were published in atlas form under the title "A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean & Round the World" which came out in 1798. A year later in 1799, a large folio size edition was published in Paris, as well as a small octavo edition published in 1800 titled "Atlas du Voyage de Decouvertes." The following 8 charts are from the French octavo atlas and cover George Vancouver's voyage up the coast from Bay de. S. Francisco and Pt. de Mondrain in Mexico below San Diego, to Cook's River in Alaska.

P-NW212 - Chart 1.“Cote Nord-Ouest De L'Amerique Reconnue Par. le Cap. Vancouver. 1st Partie.” B/W. 11.8½. The coast from Pt des Mondrains & Bay de S. Francisco (Mexico) to San Diego, Catalina Island & Isle St. Clemente to the Santa Barbara Channel & San Francisco & Sir Francis Drake's Bay. 

P-NW216 - Chart 5. “Cote Nord-Ouest De L'Amerique Reconnue par le Cap. Vancouver. V Partie." B/W. 10½X9. The coast from Christian Sound & Cape Decision, to Prince Frederick Sound, George III Island, Cress Sound, Cape Fairweather, Berings Bay & Mt. St. Elias. Alaska. 

P-NW217 - Chart 6. “Cote Nord-Ouest De L'Amerique Reconnue par le. Cap.Vancouver. VI Partie.” B/W. 8½X10½. The coast from Mt. St.Elias to Prince William sound, Cape Hinchinbrook & Montagu Island, Alaska. 

P-NW218 - Chart 7. “Cote Nord-Ouest De L'Amerique Reconnue par le Cap. Vancouver. VII Partie.” B/W.8½X10½. Cook's River, Alaska with Kodiak Island, Cape Douglas, Cape Elizabeth & offshore islands. 

P-NW220 - J. COOK/R. BONNE “Carte De la Cote N.O. De L'Amerique et de la Cote N.E. De L'Asie reconnus en 1778 et 1779.” Paris. 1787-88. Colored. 9¼X13½. Finely engraved chart of America's Pacific Northwest & Alaskan coast, visited by Capt James Cook on his 3rd voyage to the Pacific in 1776-1780, shows the coastline from Nootka, on Vancouver Island to Cook's River in Alaska. Depicts the Aleutian Islands and the Bering Strait with hundreds of depth soundings through the Strait. Includes the Russian coast of Kamtschatka and a large inset in upper right shows a plan of the entrance to Nootka Sound. The chart was probably drawn by William Bligh ( of Bounty Mutineers fame), who was a navigator and master on Cook's 3rd voyage, and the chart would have been redrawn by Lt. Henry Roberts when Cook's ships returned to England in 1780, after his death in Hawaii in 1779. The chart was subsequently re-engraved in Paris in 1787, by Gaspard André a well known French letter engraver and published in Rigobert Bonne's “Encyclopedie Méthodique” in 1787-1788. Rigobert Bonne was the Royal Hydrographer to the King in Paris. A fine example of an attractive chart.

P-NW222 - J. COOK/J. WEBBER “Canots d'Oonalashka.” Paris. 1785. B/W. 9X10. These fine engravings of Aleutian Islanders in their canoes were sketched by John Webber, a 24 year old artist who accompanied Capt. James Cook on his third voyage to the Pacific and to America's Pacific Northwest coast in 1788. The drawings were done while Cook's ships, the Resolution and Discovery anchored in the harbor of Unalaska to replenish supplies and repair the ships. From the French Edition of Cook's Voyages and engraved by Robert Benard. 

P-NW224 - J. COOK/J. WEBBER “Naturels et Habitations De Oonalashka” Paris. 1785. B/W. 9X14. This fine landscape scene of Alleutian natives with their canoes on the island of Unalaska was sketched by John Webber, a young artist who accompanied Capt. James Cook on his third voyage to the Pacific and America's Pacific Northwest coast in 1776-1780. The scene shows the canoes on the beach, fish drying on a rack and the natives standing on a rocky hillside with high cliffs in the background. The view was engraved by master engraver, Robert Benard in Paris, for inclusion in the French edition of the Voyages of Capt. Cook, issued in 1785. 

P-NW225 - J. COOK/J. WEBBER “Vue De L'Interieur D'Une Maison De L'Entree De Nootka.” Paris. 1785. B/W. 9½X14. This scene inside a house at the entrance to Nootka Harbor on Vancouver Island, was sketched by John Webber a young artist who accompanied Capt.James Cook on his third voyage to the Pacific and America's Pacific Northwest coast in 1776-1780. These dwellings housed several families but neither Cook nor Webber were able to learn the meaning of the carved idols at the back of the room. Webber's sketch was engraved in Paris, by master engraver Robert Benard for inclusion in the French edition of the Voyages of Capt. Cook, issued in 1785.

GEORGE VANCOUVER

In 1791 Capt. George Vancouver, an English navigator & explorer was sent to survey America's Pacific Northwest Coast by the British Admiralty. Commanding two ships the “Discovery” and the “Chatham”, Vancouver spent the summer months of 1792, 93 and 94 exploring the California coast and north to Alaska. He returned to England in 1795 bringing back with him some of the best and most accurate surveys and sketches that had been done to date. The following finely drawn and engraved sketches of views of the Pacific Northwest were included in the French Octavo edition of Vancouver's voyages titled “Atlas De Voyage des Decouvertes” and published in Paris in 1800.

P-NW227 - “La Decouverte echoue sur des Rochers.” 4X5. Capt. Vancouver's ship the “Discovery” grounded on submerged rocks at the northern end of Vancouver Island. 

P-NW229 - “Pieux remarkables, places sur le Rivage du Port Townshend dans le Golfe de la Georgie.” 4X5. Four strange looking masts seen by Vancouver's crew on the shore of Port Townshend in the Gulf of New Georgia.

P-NW231 - “Village Indien, situe a l'entre du Canal de Bute.” 4X5. An Indian village seen by Vancouver at the entrance to the Bute Canal.

P-NW232 - “Le New-Eddystone, dans le Canal de Behm.” 4X5. Eddystone Rock in the Behm Channel on the mainland opposite Queen Charlotte's Island. British Columbia.

P-NW233 - “Village de Chelaskys, situe sur le detroit de Johnstone” 4X5. A village of the Chelasky Indians in Johnstone Strait, northeast of Vancouver Island & below Queen Charlotte's Sound.

P-NW234 - “Baie de Glace et Mont St. Elie.” 4X5. Icy Bay and Mount St. Elias. Alaska. 

P-NW235 - “Anse du Saumon, dans l'entree de l'Observatoire” 4X5. Salmon Creek, an inlet on the mainland opposite Queen Charlotte's Sound where Vancouver erected an Observatory. British Columbia.

P-NW236 - “Port Dick pres de l'entre de Cook.” 4X5. Port Dick near the entrance to Cook's River. Alaska.

P-NW238 - W. HUGHES “British Columbia. Vancouver Island and the Valley of the Saskatchewan.” London. 1866. Colored. 9X12. Excellent and very detailed map shows a large “Rupertland” before Alberta and Saskatchewan were formed. The Rocky Mountains are clearly depicted, along with lakes & rivers inland. Coastal area is shown from the Columbia River entrance to Vancouver Island with Victoria at its southernmost tip, and thence continuing to Mount Fairweather, Alaska. This fine map is from “The New Comprehensive Atlas.” published by Wm. Mackenzie in 1866.

P-NW239 - U. S. COAST SURVEY “Reconnaissance of Grenville harbor. Washington Territory. By the Hydrographic Party under the command of Lieut. James Alden. U.S.N. Assist.” Wash. D.C. 1854. B/W. 7X8¼. Finely engraved sketch shows the harbor curving around to Point Grenville with many depth soundings and an anchorage noted in center. The Lat. of Point Grenville is approximately 47°20'.00 & the Long. west of the Greenwich Observatory in arc is 12½°14'.00. This is one of thr many fine small sketches of harbors executed by the U.S. Coast Survey in the middle 19th century after the Government started officially charting the United States coastal waters. 

P-NW240 - U. S. COAST SURVEY “Reconnaissance of Port Townshend, Washington Territory.” Wash. D.C. 1854. Colored. 15½X10. Chart shows the harbor entrance at Marrowstone Point and Point Wilson. Locates the Custom House, Killsut or Long harbor. Kala Point & Point Hudson. The shoreline is indicated as being tree-lined, and as yet no settlements are depicted around the perimeter of the harbor. A very nice early chart.  

P-NW241 - JAMES VIRTUE “The City of Victoria, Vancouver Island.” London c. 1860. Colored. 6¼X9¼. From a painting by H. Linton, this attractive scene shows a rural landscape along a river with cattle and a covered wagon in foreground, and buildings & people on the opposite shore with boats in the river. This is a fine hand colored engraving of Victoria's early days before it became a major city in the later 19th century. Attractive and colorful.

P-NW243 - J. COOK “Vues des Terres De La Cote Occidentale De L'Amerique, a L'Ouest De La Riviere de Cook.” Paris. 1784. B/W/ 9X18. This series of 8 landfall approach views was drawn from sketches brought back to London and then to Paris from Capt. James Cook's third round-the-world voyage (1776-1780), after he sailed to America's Pacifc Northwest discovering Prince William Sound on the Alaskan coast and subsequently the river he named Cape Turn Again and then Cook's River which he thought might be the entrance to a northwest passage. But after exploring its length it ended in snow-capped mountains where present day Anchorage is located. The sketches on this sheet all show landfall approach views seen by the navigators and crews of Cook's two ships “The Resolution” and “The Discovery” as they sailed along the Alaskan coast in 1778. Engraved by master engraver Robert Benard, this copper engraving was included in the French edition of Cook's Voyages.

PNW244 - J. COOK “A Map of the Discoveries Made by Capts. Cook and Clerke in the Years 1778 and 1779 between the Eastern Coast of Asia and the Western Coast of North America when they Attempted to Navigate the North Sea. Also Mr. Hearne's Discoveries to the North Westward of Hudson's Bay.” London. 1784.. Outline color.7½X11. Finely engraved chart shows America's Pacific Northwest Coast from the Gulf of California (the Baja Peninsula), New Albion (California) to the Alaskan coast, Prince William Sound and Cook's River. Depicts the Bering Strait, the Aleutian Islands and Russian Kamtchatka. The tracks of Capt. Cook in his ship “The Resolution” and Capt. Clerke in “The Discovery” are shown crossing the North Pacific Ocean from the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) to the coast of Alaska and returning, in 1778 and 1779. Capt. Clerke took over as Master of “The Resolution” after Cook's death in Hawaii in 1779. The discoveries of Samuel Hearne (1745-92) to the north of Hudson's Bay are depicted, as well as the area where he located the Coppermine River in 1770. Hearne was the first white man to to cross overland from Hudson's Bay tracing the river to the Arctic Ocean. In the late 18th century a number of explorers and navigators were involved in trying to find a northwest passage across the North American continent, and Cook and Clerke were amongst the most interested in finding an opening on the Pacific Northwest coast that might lead to a river connecting to a water passage across the continent to the east. A fine map engraved by William Palmer.

PNW247 - U. S. COAST SURVEY “Reconnaissance of False Dungeness Harbor, Washington.” Wash. D.C. 1853. B/W. 9½X12. Finely engraved chart of the harbor with hundreds of depth soundings and Pt. Angeles or Ediz Hook at the entrance. Depicts a Salt Water Lagoon and fresh water inlets around the perimeter of the harbor and indicates the Straits of Juan de Fuca. The chart was surveyed by the Hydrographic Party under the command of Lt. James Alden, U.S.N. Fine. 

PNW249 - U. S. COAST SURVEY “Preliminary Chart of Gray's harbor, Washington Territory.” Wash. D.C. 1852.B/W. 16½X17. From a Trigonometrical Survey under the Direction of A. D. Bache. Supt. U.S.C.S. Chart shows Eid Island and Pt. Hanson at the entrance to the harbor. Depicts Fort Chelasis & South Bay and hundreds of depth soundings in the harbor and offshore. Includes detailed navigational notes on tides, soundings and magnetic variations. Good condition.

PNW258 - AMERICANA CO. “Alaska” New York. 1903. Colored. 9X12. Intensely detailed map shows population figures for Dawson (Yukon) Sitka, Nome, Douglas, Anvik & smaller towns and settlements. Depicts railroads, rivers, mountain ranges inland and harbors, bays, inlets and offshore islands around the coasts. Includes a small inset chart of the Aleutian Islands on the same scale as the main map, and another inset titled “From Juneau to Forty Mile Creek” in the Klondike. Good detail.

PNW259 - U. S. COAST & GEODETIC SURVEY “United States West Coast. Puget Sound. Skiff Point to Apple Cove Point.” Wash. D.C. 1942 (1945). Yellow/white color. 40X32. Excellent chart of Puget Sound shows both topographical and hydrographical details. Depicts Bainbridge Island & Port Madison, Agate Passage, Appletree Cove, Fort Lawton and West Point, Point Wells and Edwards Point and indicates an area titled “Anchorage for Explosives Offshore.” The Sound is dotted with hundreds of depth soundings and the chart includes buoys and beacons, courses and detailed navigational notes for entering the area. A finely detailed chart. Chart #6437.

PNW260 - F. SANTINI (Buache/De Lisle). “Carte Des Nouvelles Decouvertes Au Nord De La Mer Du Sud, Tant a L'Est de la Siberie et du Kamtchatka Qu'a L'Ouest de la Nouvelle France. A Venise Chez Francois Santini.” Venice 1776. Colored. 17½X24½. This beautiful and decorative map shows Alaska and America's Pacific Northwest coast, along with Russian Asia (Siberia) Kamtchatka, the Japanese Islands & the Coast of China. The chart was drawn to show the explorations in the North Pacific in the early 1700's and includes the voyages of Vitus Bering in 1728 and 1741 to the Strait that bears his name and the southern coast of Alaska. Chart also depicts the tracks of Joseph Nicolas Delisle's voyage with Capt. Tchirkov in 1741 and De Frondat's voyage from China to California in 1709. Also crossing the Ocean are the tracks of the Spanish Gallleons, who sailed regularly from Acapulco in Mexico, to Manilla in the Philippines carrying immense quantities of gold and treasure, until in 1743 one of them, the Nuestra Senora de Covadonga was intercepted and captured by Commodore George Anson, and the treasure the ship was carrying made Anson wealthy for life. America's Pacific Northwest coast above Cape Mendocino and Cap Blanc is entirely speculative with a huge “Sea of the West” pictured just inland from the coast, where a network of rivers and lakes is drawn at the supposed entrance to the imaginary northwest passage claimed by the Spanish Admiral de Fonte. The chart's title in top center is in a handsome, ornamental cartouche with leaves, flowers and scrolls in the 18th. century rococo style, topped with a crown and shield in a sunburst. In top left is a colorful engraving of a man from Kamtchatka and in top right is a similar engraving of a man from Louisiana. On the chart North America's east coast from Canada down to the Caribbean including the Great Lakes is pictured with rather more accuracy than the Pacific Northwest which was just starting to be surveyed at the time this map was issued. From “Atlas Universel,” published by G. A. Remondins. Chez Francois Santini in 1776. (Note the chart is based upon the mss surveys of Joseph Nicolas Delisle (1688-1768) who studied with Cassini as an astronomer and cartographer, later working in Russia where he founded the Academy of Sciences at St. Petersburg before returning to Paris in 1747, after having made his epic voyage with Capt. Tchirkov in 1741. Ref.: Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers. Page 559. No.9.) A very fine chart.

JOHN WEBBER

John Webber was a 24 year old artist, the son of a Swiss sculptor resident in London, who accompanied Capt. James Cook on his 3rd voyage to the Pacific in 1776-1780. Whenever Cook's ships, The Resolution and Discovery, anchored off coasts or islands, Webber would draw portraits of the natives and views of the surrounding terrain. The following engravings taken from Webber's sketches were published in James Cook's “A Voyage to the Pacific Ocean,” (Atlas Folio.) The 1st official Admiralty approved edition and published by George Nicol, in London in 1784. The engravings are in very nice condition and are from the scarce 1st edition.

PNW263 - A White Bear. 7½X10. image size. Engraved by Peter Mazell

PNW266 - Natives of Oonalashka and Their Habitations. 9½X15 image size. Engraved by J. Hall & S. Middleton.

PNW268 - A Sea Otter. 6½X10 image size. Engraved by Peter Mazell.

PNW270 - The Tschuktschi and Their Habitations. 9½X15 image size. Engraved by Lerpiniere.

PNW271 - J. COOK “Sketch of Nootka Sound. 1778.” London. 1784. Colored. 12½X8¼. Excellent chart of Nootka Sound and Harbor on Vancouver Island, sketched in 1778 by Capt. James Cook and his navigators during his 3rd voyage to the Pacific between 1776-1779 in his ship the Resolution. The sketch depicts shoreline contours and Breaker's Point, with many depth soundings drawn in the entrance to the Sound. Includes a large compass rose with radiating rhumb lines as an aid to mariners approaching from offshore. The chart was published in “A New Authentic and Complete Collection of Voyages Round the World” compiled by George William Anderson and published by Alexander Hogg in London in 1784. This fine chart was engraved by Thomas Bowen (1732-1790) one of London's finest 18th century engravers.

PNW272 - J. MEARES “Callicum et Maquilla. Chefs de L'Entree de Nootka and Cape dell Imboccatura de Nootka.” Napoli (Naples, Italy.) 1796. B/W. 10½X7. The two striking individuals in this View are native chiefs from Nootka on Vancouver Island seen by Capt. John Meares, a former British Navy officer who made two voyages to the Pacific Northwest between 1788 and 1789. As an explorer and trader he intended to build a British fur trading settlement at Nootka, but his plan was thwarted by other marine traders who warned him off the coast, as he refused to apply for a trading permit. During his voyages he made surveys & maps, and sketched the natives he encountered on his travels. This fine copper plate engraving was engraved by Il Zatta for the Italian edition of “Meares Voyages Made in the Years 1788 and 1789 from China to the Northwest Coast of America“ titled “Viaggi Dalla Chine Alla Costa Nord Ouest D'America Fatti Negli.” John Meares lived from 1756-1810. 

PNW273 - J. B. LABORDE “Carte De Voyage Du Capitain Cook ” Paris. 1791. Colored. 8X14. Jean Benjamin Laborde (1734-1794) was a writer, traveler, and musician who commissioned this chart to show Captain James Cook's last voyage to the Pacific Northwest in 1779. The chart shows the tracks of Cook's ships the Resolution and the Discovery on the southern coast of Alaska and Prince William Sound. It also shows Nootka on Vancouver Island which was later surveyed and named by Capt. George Vancouver in 1792, Along the northwest coast is an entrance to the apocryphal northwest passage supposedly discovered by Admiral Bartholomew de Fonte in 1640 and a note on the chart refers to one Arthur Dobbs (1689-1765) a Member of the Irish House of Commons who succumbed to the belief that the passage existed. However, later in the 18th century a Spanish Jesuit Priest searched the archives in Madrid and found no evidence of De Fonte's voyage nor that De Fonte actually existed! But the myth of the existence of a Northwest Passage across the Continent of North America persisted on maps and was not laid to rest until George Vancouver's surveys in the 1790's finally showed no evidence of a water passage between America's Pacific Northwest coast and Hudson's and Baffin's Bays in the east. This fine chart was published in “Histoire Abregee de la Mer du Sud” chez Pierre Didot a famous French 18th century publisher in Paris.

PNW274 - L. A. DUPUIS “Carte De La Partie Septentrionale de la Mer Du Sud Comprise Entre La Californie Les Isles Sandwich, Le Japon et Le Detroit de Behring. Tiree de la Carte Generale Angloise des Decouvertes du Capitaine Cook.” Paris. c. 1782. Colored. 10X14½. This very detailed map by a well-known French engraver, Louis Antoine Dupuis shows America's Pacific Northwest Coast and the tracks of Captain Cook's ships, the Resolution and the Discovery during Cook's 3rd voyage to the Pacific between 1778 and 1779. The tracks are drawn from the Sandwich Islands (Hawaii) to Nootka and the southern coast of Alaska where Cook surveyed Prince William Sound, Cook's River and the Aleutian Islands. He then continued northward through the Behring Strait to America's and Russia's Arctic coasts before bad weather and ice forced his return to the Sandwich Islands. Dupuis attempted to encompass, on this map, all the latest discoveries and information of the region brought back to Europe by Cook and his crew, so the map depicts many harbors and islands not noted on earlier maps.

PNW275 - J. COOK/R. BENARD “Plan Du Havre de Sanganooda, dans L'Isle de Oonalaska.” Paris. 1785. B/W. 7½X6½. In mid-August of 1778 Capt. James Cook with his two ships the “Resolution” & the “Discovery” sailed up the Bhering Strait to the Arctic Circle during his voyage of exploration to the Alaskan coast. As the cold was intense and the ice thick, he turned back, planning to spend the winter in Hawaii. However, as both ships were badly in need of repairs, he headed for Unalaska (Aleutians) & the harbor of Samganooda where the ship's carpenters took 3 weeks to replank & caulk the ships in readiness for their continued voyage across the Pacific. During his enforced stay in Sanganooda, Cook charted the harbor, taking depth soundings & drawing the harbor topography. This excellent chart drawn from Cook's sketches was engraved by Robert Bernard for inclusion in the French Edition of Cook's Voyages, published in Paris in 1785. 

PNW278 - J. COOK/J. WEBBER “Une Femme De L'Entree Du Prince Guillaume.” Paris.1785. B/W. 9¼X6½. In the summer of 1778 Capt. James Cook entered Prince William Sound on Alaska's southern coast to make repairs to his ships the “Resolution” & the “Discovery” during his 3rd voyage to the Pacific in 1776-1780. Cook named the harbor Sandwich Sound, which was later changed to Prince William Sound. It was a wide inlet & Cook & his Officers thought it might be the entrance to the Northwest Passage, but after several days of sailing up it's 200 mile length Cook found his ships hemmed in by snow-capped mountains & no further passage was possible. Turning around, Cook retraced his route back to the coast to continue his voyage westward. This fine depiction of a woman from Prince William Sound, was engraved by Robert Benard, from a portrait sketch made by John Webber, who accompanied Cook on his 3rd voyage, as official artist & draughtsman. 

PNW280 - J. COOK/R. BENARD “Plan de L'Entree de Nootka.” Paris. 1785. B/W. 10½X8¼. In March 1778 Capt. James Cook sailed into Nootka Sound, on the coast of what became Vancouver island. His ships the “Resolution” the “Discovery” were badly in need of repairs having been at sea for 2 years during his voyage of discovery to the Pacific between 1776-1780. Cook spent 4 weeks at Nootka & while there he sketched the harbor topography and took depth soundings, before continuing his explorations of America's Pacific Northwest coast and Alaska. This fine engraving by Robert Benard, a master engraver in Paris in the late 18th century, was included in the French edition of Cook's Voyages published in 1785.

PNW281 - G. VANCOUVER “A Chart Showing Part Of The Coast of North West America With The Tracks of His Majesty's Sloop “Discovery” and Armed Tender “Chatham”. Commanded by George Vancouver Esq. and Prepared Under the Immediate Inspection by Lieut. Joseph Baker, In Which the Continental Shore Has Been Correctly Traced & Determined from Lat. 57º.07½ N. & Long. 227ºE to Lat. 59ºN & Long. 219º00E, at the Periods Shown by the Tracks.” London. 1798. B/W. 29X24½. Fine chart takes in the Pacific Northwest coast from Chatham Strait & King George III Archipelago, to Prince Frederick Sound & Admiralty Island to Cape Spencer & Cape Fairweather to Behrings Bay. An area that encompasses Alaska's Northwest coast that was visited by George Vancouver (1758-1798) in his ships the “Discovery” & the “Chatham,” on his voyage of discovery to the Pacific & Pacific Northwest between 1791-1795. Having started his career as a midshipman under Capt. James Cook on Cook's 2nd & 3rd circumnavigations, Vancouver was an experience navigator, so that the surveys he brought back to the Admiralty in London in 1795 from his own Pacific voyage were considered to be of a very high standard. This chart includes 3 large insets 1.) Entrance Into Cross Sound, 2.) A Survey of Port Conclusion & 3.) A Survey of Port Protection. The chart was published in “A Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific Ocean & Round the World under the Command of Capt. George Vancouver.” Engraved by Thomas Foot and printed by G. G. Robinson and J. Edwards in London in 1798. An excellent chart from the 1st edition in very nice condition

PNW282 - W. SWINTON (Untitled) “Washington Territory & Oregon.” New York 1884. Colored. 11X9. Fine map shows counties in different colors & depicts the Columbia River from it's entrance on the Pacific coast flowing through Washington Territory & around the Great Plains of the Columbia River on it's way to where it rises in British Columbia, Canada. The map shows all major cities, towns and harbors from California's northern border to the Straits of Juan de Fuca and Vancouver Island in Canada. The map was published by William Swinton and Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co. in “A Descriptive Atlas of the United States.” 

PNW283 - S. A. MITCHELL “County & Township Map of Oregon & Washington.” Phila. 1880-81. Colored. 20X14½. Handsome double page map shows all principal harbors & towns & outlying settlements. Roads, rivers, mountains, lakes, & Indian Reservations. Includes the Straits of Juan de Fuca & Vancouver Island in the northwest. The Snake River in the east. Shows Mount Rainier & Mount Adams. Depicts many creeks & springs. A colorful map with great detail published in Mitchell's “ New General Atlas Containing Maps of the World, Plans of Cities Etc.” 1880-81.

PNW284 - S. A. MITCHELL “Map of Oregon, Washington, Idaho and Part of Montana.” Phila. 1870. Colored.10¼X13½ .Colorful map of the 4 Western States shows the coast from British Columbia and Vancouver island and Port Effingham down to Oregon's border with California at Pt. St. George. The coastal regions appear heavily populated whereas the inland regions are still largely unpopulated except for primary towns. Depicts mountain ranges and volcanoes, rivers, lakes and Indian Territories, forts and missions all in fine detail. This is an excellent map from Samuel Augustus Mitchell's “New General Atlas.”