1902 (dated)
1 : 1013760
Description
This massive, six-sheet map of Persia produced in 1897 by the British Survey of India (updated to 1902) was the most detailed map of what is now Iran, Iraq, and parts of Azerbaijan and Turkmenistan that had been executed to date: we are aware of no comparable map prior. Its exhaustive detail would continue to command respect well into the 20th century: the German military faithfully copied this map in 1918, as they did with other British maps of important theaters in the Great War.
The MapThe map was printed in color to six large sheets which were then dissected and mounted on linen to form four folding quadrants, three of twenty-four panels and one of twenty-eight. The map s scope includes Baghdad and the borders of the Turkish Empire to the west, and reaches eastwards to Afghanistan and Baluchistan (now part of Pakistan.) Barring part of the coastline near Kuwait and the portion of Oman overlooking the Strait of Hormuz
Russia-strahlenbergottens-1730
A richly-detailed rendering of Strahlenberg s stolen 1715 map of Russia in Asia and the Tatar Empire.
$7,500.00
Title
Carte nouvelle de tout l Empire de la Grande Russie dans l estat ou il s est trouveÌ aÌ la mort de Pierre le Grand. DresseÌe sur des observations toutes nouvelles et dedoeÌe aÌ l immortelle memoire de ce Grand Monarque Avec Privilege à Amsterdam.
1730 (undated)
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Description
This rare, separately issued map of the Russian Empire was printed by Renier and Josua Ottens c. 1730, but the map is based on the work of Philipp Johann von Strahlenberg: it is that mapmaker s first map of Russia and Siberia, stolen from him in 1715. Strahlenberg (1677 - 1747) would rebound to produce his superb 1730