Posted 01/07/2008 02:28 am
G'day,
love the spelling: "Summers's Museum" - immortalized in bronze.
The Land of Jesso -
see: "A Narrative of Some Observations Made upon Several Voyages, Undertaken to Find a Way for Sailing about the North to the East-Indies, and for Returning the Same Way from Hence Hither: Together with Instructions Given by the Dutch East-India Company For the Discovery of the Famous Land of Jesso Near Japan. To Which is Added a Relation of Sailing through the Northern America to the East-Indies. Englished by the Publisher Out of Dutch, Which Had Been Compos'd by Dirick Rembrantz van Nierop, and Printed at Amsterdam. 1674."
William Barentz attempted to open this route in 1594 & again in 1596, without success.
After the VOC efforts, the region was further explored in 1738 by Spanbergen; La Perouse in 1787; and Broughton in 1794
THe Land of Jesso is shown in an atlas of Asia published by Gibson of London in 1753:
http://www.cartography.henny-saveni...bson_jpg.htm
look at 140 deg East and 50 deg North.
"A new geographical, historical, and commercial grammar ..." by William Guthrie, 1843: "...geographers delineated as they pleased the famous land of Jesso; it was made either a continent, or a large island between Asia and Japan."
It is interesting to wonder whether Jesso is a misdescription of the chain of islands between Japan, and the Kamchatka Peninsula. Nowadays known as the Kuril Islands.
Hope this helps: lovely coin, bythe way. What size is it ?
Peter in Oz
love the spelling: "Summers's Museum" - immortalized in bronze.
The Land of Jesso -
see: "A Narrative of Some Observations Made upon Several Voyages, Undertaken to Find a Way for Sailing about the North to the East-Indies, and for Returning the Same Way from Hence Hither: Together with Instructions Given by the Dutch East-India Company For the Discovery of the Famous Land of Jesso Near Japan. To Which is Added a Relation of Sailing through the Northern America to the East-Indies. Englished by the Publisher Out of Dutch, Which Had Been Compos'd by Dirick Rembrantz van Nierop, and Printed at Amsterdam. 1674."
William Barentz attempted to open this route in 1594 & again in 1596, without success.
After the VOC efforts, the region was further explored in 1738 by Spanbergen; La Perouse in 1787; and Broughton in 1794
THe Land of Jesso is shown in an atlas of Asia published by Gibson of London in 1753:
http://www.cartography.henny-saveni...bson_jpg.htm
look at 140 deg East and 50 deg North.
"A new geographical, historical, and commercial grammar ..." by William Guthrie, 1843: "...geographers delineated as they pleased the famous land of Jesso; it was made either a continent, or a large island between Asia and Japan."
It is interesting to wonder whether Jesso is a misdescription of the chain of islands between Japan, and the Kamchatka Peninsula. Nowadays known as the Kuril Islands.
Hope this helps: lovely coin, bythe way. What size is it ?
Peter in Oz
