Democracy implies first of all civic equality. In a democracy, all citizens are subject to the same laws and are distinguished from one another only by their merit. Poverty should therefore not prevent anyone from taking part in the life of the city. The aim is not to ensure the same resources for all citizens but to guarantee the equality of all before the law through the impartiality of justice. This is what we call the rule of law.
NouvelleCarteDecouvertes-muller-1766
$1,900.00
Title
Nouvelle Carte des decouvertes Faites Par Des Vaisseaux Russiens Aux Côtes Inconnues de L Amerique Septentrionale Avec Les Pais Adiacents.
1766 (dated)
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Description
A beautiful example of 1766 example of Gerhard Friedrich Müller s important map of the Pacific Northwest, Alaska, the Bering Strait and Siberia, here in its rare Dutch second edition. Issued after the seminal explorations of Vitus Bering (1733 - 1743) on the Asia side of his namesake strait, but before the voyages of Captain James Cook similarly mapped the American side of the Bering Strait, this map is a smorgasbord of cartographic speculation â such as the exceptionally fine delineation of Friedrich Müller s Peninsula (Alaska / Aleutians). Centered on the Bering Strait, the map covers from Chinese Tartary to the Hudson Bay, and from the high Arctic, south as far as New Mexico, and Honshu (Japan). There is a stri