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Shows the Mer de Coree (Sea of Korea)
Highly detailed map of Asia, extending to the Marianas, Palau and the Philippines, published by Philippe Buache in Paris.
The map is based upon earlier maps by De L'Isle, which have been updated by Buache to include the most recent discoveries, primarily in Southeast Asia and the Northeastern Coast of Asia.
Korea is a peninsula, with the Sea of Korea shown.. Japan is oversized, with Isle De Jeso and the remnants of some of the mythical cartography of the prior century still in evidence.
The map has been defaced during the French Revolution, to remove references to the King of France, with 4 words in the title canceled in pen.
Philippe Buache (1700-1773) was one of the most famous French geographers of the eighteenth century. Buache was married to the daughter of the eminent Guillaume Delisle and worked with his father-in-law, carrying on the business after Guillaume died. Buache gained the title geographe du roi in 1729 and was elected to the Academie des Sciences in the same year. Buache was a pioneering theoretical geographer, especially as regards contour lines and watersheds. He is best known for his works such as Considérations géographiques et physiques sur les découvertes nouvelles dans la grande mer (Paris, 1754).
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