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Essays: strait-of-anian

Introduction:

This strait, believed to separate northwestern America from northeastern Asia, was related to the centuries-long quest to find a Northwest Passage connecting the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific. The rumor of this strait and a Northwest Passage in general inspired many voyages of discovery, including those of John Cabot, Sir Francis Drake, Gaspar Corte-Real, Jacques Cartier, and Sir Humphrey Gilbert.

The term Anian itself comes from Marco Polo’s thirteenth-century accounts of his travels. Polo used the term to refer to the Gulf of Tonkin, but cartographers thought it could refer to this supposed strait between Asia and North America. The Strait of Anian, so named, first appeared in a 1562 map by Giacomo Gastaldi, and was later adopted by Bolognini Zaltieri and Gerard Mercator.

Asia ex magna orbis terre descriptionie Gerardi Mercatori desumpta studio et industria G.M. Iumioiris

Gerard Mercator

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1595 circa

Size:

18.5 x 14.5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

105203

[World -- Terrestrial Globe Gores]

Jodocus Hondius / Giuseppe Rossi

Place/Date:

Rome / 1615

Size:

18.5 x 13.5 inches (each sheet)

Condition:

Stock#:

89195

Nova et Exacta Asia Geographica Descriptio . . .

Willem Janszoon Blaeu / Stefano Scolari

Place/Date:

Venice / 1646

Size:

55 x 40 inches

Condition:

See Description

Stock#:

89862

Novissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula Auctore Nicolao Visscher

Nicolaes Visscher I

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1679

Size:

21 x 17 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

62284

Mappe-Monde, Ou Carte Generale De La Terre, Divisee En Deux Hemispheres. . . 1694

Nicolas de Fer

Place/Date:

Paris / 1694

Size:

43.5 x 31.3 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

73331

Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula.

Cornelis I Danckerts

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1696 circa

Size:

34 x 39 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

54815

[ Wall Map of the World ] Mappe-Monde, Ou Carte Generale De La Terre, Divisee En Deux Hemispheres. . . 1705

Nicolas de Fer

Place/Date:

Paris / 1705

Size:

59.75 x 38.25 inches including text

Condition:

Fair

Stock#:

106104

Planisphere Terrestre Suivant les nouvelle Observations des Astronomes Dressee et presente Roy Tres Chretien par Mr. Cassini le Fils . . .

Pieter van der Aa

Place/Date:

Leiden / 1713

Size:

26 x 21 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

70057

Mappe-Monde, Ou Carte Generale De La Terre, Divisee En Deux Hemispheres. . . 1730

Nicolas de Fer

Place/Date:

Paris / 1730

Size:

43 x 31 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

103493

To The Right Honorable John Lord Sommers...This Map of North America According To Ye Newest and Most Exact Observations . . .

Herman Moll

Place/Date:

London / 1735 circa

Size:

38 x 23 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

101276

Archived

Asia ex magna orbis terre descriptione Gerardi Mercatoris Desumpta studio et industria G.M. Iumioris

Gerard Mercator

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1595 circa

Size:

18.5 x 14.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

72504

Asia ex magna orbis terre descriptionie Gerardi Mercatori desumpta studio et industria G.M. Iumioiris

Gerard Mercator

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1595 circa

Size:

18.5 x 14.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

81857

Asia ex magna orbis terre descriptionie Gerardi Mercatori desumpta studio et industria G.M. Iumioiris

Gerard Mercator

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1595 circa

Size:

18.5 x 14.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

89602

Tartariae Imperium

Giovanni Antonio Magini

Place/Date:

Venice / 1596

Size:

7 x 5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

59526

Tartariae Imperium

Giovanni Antonio Magini

Place/Date:

Venice / 1596

Size:

7 x 5.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

71506

Deliniatio Cartae Trium Navigationum per Batavos, ad Septentrionalem Plagam, Norvegiae, Moscoviae, et Novae Semblae . . .

Willem Barentsz

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1598

Size:

21.5 x 17 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

70323

Universale Descrittione Del Mondo

Arnoldo di Arnoldi / Giovanni Florimi

Place/Date:

Siena / 1601 (1634)

Size:

31.5 x 20 inches

Condition:

Good

Stock#:

72385

Universale Descrittione Del Mondo

Arnoldo di Arnoldi

Place/Date:

Siena / 1601

Size:

31.5 x 20 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

73593

Asia ex magna orbis terre descriptionie Gerardi Mercatori Desumpta studio et industria G.M. Iumioiris

Gerard Mercator

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1610 circa

Size:

18.5 x 14.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

57016

Asia ex magna orbis terre descriptionie Gerardi Mercatori Desumpta studio et industria G.M. Iumioiris

Gerard Mercator

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1610 circa

Size:

18.5 x 14.5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

57557

Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac Hydrographica Tabula auc.t Iud Hondio . . . 1630

Melchior Tavernier / Jodocus Hondius II

Place/Date:

Paris / 1630

Size:

22.5 x 15.5 inches

Condition:

Poor

Stock#:

74663

Asie . . . 1650 [with unusual depiction of the West Coast of North America and the Island of Corey]

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1650

Size:

22 x 15.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

24189

Asie . . . 1650 [with unusual depiction of the West Coast of North America and the Island of Corey]

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1650

Size:

22 x 15.5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

0142gh

Asie . . . 1650 [with unusual depiction of the West Coast of North America and the Island of Corey]

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1650

Size:

22 x 15.5 inches

Condition:

VG-

Stock#:

50414

Asie . . . 1650 [with unusual depiction of the West Coast of North America and the Island of Corey]

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1650

Size:

22 x 15.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

54215

Asie . . . 1650 [with unusual depiction of the West Coast of North America and the Island of Corey]

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1650 circa

Size:

22 x 15.5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

93726

Asie . . . 1650 [with unusual depiction of the West Coast of North America and the Island of Corey]

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1650

Size:

22 x 15.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

102556

Asie . . . 1650 [with unusual depiction of the West Coast of North America and the Island of Corey]

Nicolas Sanson

Place/Date:

Paris / 1650

Size:

22 x 15.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

110331

Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac Hydrographica Tabula Autore N I Piscator . . . 1652

Claes Janszoon Visscher

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1652

Size:

22.5 x 18 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

33164ops

Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac Hydrographica Tabula Autore N I Piscator . . . 1652

Claes Janszoon Visscher

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1652

Size:

22.5 x 18 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

67154

Nova Totius Terrarum Orbis Geographica Ac Hydrographica Tabula Autore N I Piscator . . . 1652

Claes Janszoon Visscher

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1652

Size:

22.5 x 18 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

70905

A New and Accurat Map of the World Drawne According to ye Truest Descriptions Latest Discoveries & Best Observations yet have beene Made by English or Strangers

Robert Walton

Place/Date:

London / 1656 (1659)

Size:

20.5 x 15.5 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

60683

A New, Plaine and Exact Map of America: described by N. I. Visscher And don into english, enlarged, & corrected, according to I. Blaeu: with the habits of the people, and manner of the cheife citties: the like never before Printed, colored & are to be Sold by Rob: Walton . . .

Robert Walton

Place/Date:

London / 1658 (1660 ca)

Size:

21 x 16.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

41659

Robert Walton

Place/Date:

London / 1658 (1660 ca)

Size:

21 x 16.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

70412

Robert Walton

Place/Date:

London / 1658 (1660 ca)

Size:

21 x 16.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

71492

Robert Walton

Place/Date:

London / 1658 (1660 ca)

Size:

18.3 x 13.7 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

70871

A New and Accurat Map of the World Drawne According to ye Truest Descriptions Latest Discoveries & Best Observations yet have beene Made by English or Strangers

Robert Walton

Place/Date:

London / 1659

Size:

20.5 x 15.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

73303

A New and Accurat Map of the World Drawne According to ye Truest Descriptions Latest Discoveries & Best Observations yet have beene Made by English or Strangers

Robert Walton

Place/Date:

London / 1659

Size:

20.75 x 15.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

83299

Nova et Accuratissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula Auctore Joanne Blaeu

Johannes Blaeu

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1662

Size:

21.5 x 16 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

50067

Nova et Accuratissima Totius Terrarum Orbis Tabula Auctore Joanne Blaeu

Johannes Blaeu

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1662

Size:

25 x 22 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

71413

Nouveau Mexique et Californie

Alain Manesson Mallet

Place/Date:

Paris / 1683

Size:

4 x 6 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

69682

Nouveau Mexique et Californie

Alain Manesson Mallet

Place/Date:

Paris / 1683

Size:

4 x 6 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

63850

Nouveau Mexique et Californie

Alain Manesson Mallet

Place/Date:

Frankfurt / 1686

Size:

4 x 6 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

65305

[Pacific Ocean] Zuyd Zee

Gerard Van Keulen

Place/Date:

Amsterdam / 1704 circa

Size:

24 x 20.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

89554

Planisphere Terrestre Suivant les nouvelle Observations des Astronomes Dressee et presente Roy Tres Chretien par Mr. Cassini le Fils . . .

Pieter van der Aa

Place/Date:

Leiden / 1713

Size:

26 x 21 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

64158

To The Right Honorable John Lord Sommers . . . This Map of North America According To Ye Newest and Most Exact Observations . . .

Herman Moll

Place/Date:

London / 1719 circa

Size:

38 x 22.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

21593

To The Right Honorable John Lord Sommers...This Map of North America According To Ye Newest and Most Exact Observations . . .

Herman Moll

Place/Date:

London / 1720

Size:

38 x 23 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

56743

Mappe-Monde, Ou Carte Generale De La Terre, Divisee En Deux Hemispheres. . . 1730

Nicolas de Fer

Place/Date:

Paris / 1730

Size:

43 x 31 inches

Condition:

VG+

Stock#:

81912

The World

John Gibson / Thomas Salmon

Place/Date:

London / 1752

Size:

18 x 10.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

67600

[Unrecorded Late State] To The Right Honorable John Lord Sommers . . . This Map of North America According To Ye Newest and Most Exact Observations . . .

Herman Moll

Place/Date:

London / 1754 circa

Size:

38 x 22.5 inches

Condition:

Stock#:

75967