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Engraved map, hand-colored (later). 19.7x28.5 cm ((7¾x11¼") plus wide margins. 

Map of the northwestern portion of North American and the northeast extremities of Asia. Clive Burden calls it "A rare map. Examples of the 'La Petite Atlas Maritime' normally bear 581 maps. Three examples recorded bear 582, the additional map being this one bound as the fourth map in the third volume... It focuses on the Russian discoveries in North West America and shows the tracks of Bering & Tchirikow. This map falls in to the rich vain that is the De L'Isle - Buache De Fonte controversy. Their cartography was refuted by the important Muller map of 1754 which incorporated the new discoveries of Bering and Tchirikow. Its most recognisable feature is the alluded peninsula form of Alaska... This version published in in 1764 by Bellin takes Muller's cartography but improves upon it removing the mythical Sea of the West. Instead he places a legend which states that he does mark the 'pretended voyages of de Fonte'."