1854 A D Bache Large Rare Antique Map of Marthas Vineyard & Muskeget Channel, Massachusetts Turkey who was some-time chirurgeon-in-ordinary to

who was some-time chirurgeon-in-ordinary to the French King

This fine original copper-plate engraved antique print a view of the Islands of Zoushan in the in north-eastern Zhejiang Province of eastern China was engraved by Jakob van Schley - after Johannes Nieuhoff - and was published in Antoine François Prevosts 15 volumes of Histoire Generale des Voyageswritten by Prevost & other authors between 1746-1790

hence the origin of its Ancient Greek name ὀφρῦς (ophrus)

and remained so until the 20th century

The name Santa Cruz was given to the island in 1595 by the Spanish navigator Alvaro de Mendaña

1854 A D Bache Large Rare Antique Map of Marthas Vineyard & Muskeget Channel, Massachusetts Turkey who was some-time chirurgeon-in-ordinary toTitle : Preliminary Chart of Muskeget Channel Massachusetts from a Trigonmetrical Survey . . . 1854 Size: 29in x 21 1 2in (735mm x 545mm) Condition: (A+) Fine Condition Date : 1854 Ref #: 93035 Description: This large rare, original lithograph early antique map of Marthas Vineyard & the Muskeget Channel, Massachusetts across to Falmouth Village by Alexander Dallas Bache (great grandson of Benjamin Franklin) in 1854 dated was published by the official