Item details: Nouvelle Carte de Moscovie ou sont Representes les Diferents Etats de sa Maieste Czarienne en Europe et en Asie et le Chemin d'un de ses Ambassadeurs a Peking Ville ...
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CHATELAIN, Henri Abraham
Nouvelle Carte de Moscovie ou sont Representes les Diferents Etats de sa Maieste Czarienne en Europe et en Asie et le Chemin d'un de ses Ambassadeurs a Peking Ville ...
Imprint: Amsterdam, c.1715
510 x 585 mm., in full recent wash colour, good condition.
This detailed map illustrates the full extent of Russia from Eastern Europe to Tartary and the Pacific Ocean. Two tables below are keyed to the regions and towns on the map. It was published in the fourth volume of the encyclopaedic atlas by Henri Abraham Chatelain (1684-1743) entitled 'Atlas Historique ou Nouvelle Introduction a l'Histoire, a la Chronologie & a la Geographie'. It was issued from 1705 to 1720 in 7 volumes. Many of he maps are derived from the cartography of Guillaume de L'Isle. The text and many of the plates related to the best travel accounts of the period. including Chardin, Dapper, de Bruyn, Le Hay and others. Koeman II p. 33; Phillips 579; Shirley 'Atlases in the BL' T.Chat-1a; Van Waning 'Chatelain's Atlas Historique' in IMCoS Journal 120 pp. 7-15.
Stock number:9206.