Guillaume De L'Isle: Carte de Tartarie
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Cartographer:
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Guillaume De L'Isle
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Title:
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Carte de Tartarie
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Date:
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1766
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Published:
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Paris
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Width:
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21 inches / 54 cm
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Height:
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17 inches / 44 cm
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Map ref:
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RUS2626
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Description:
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De L'Isle's extraordinary map of Central Asia showing the extensive network of trade routes which formed the legendary Silk Road. The map extends from Beijing (Peking) to Moscow and includes the fabled Silk Road trading cities of Samarkhand, Bukahara, Tashkent, and Ferghana.
This is a late edition of this map, augmented and revised initially by Philippe Buache, successor to Guillaume de L'Isle in 1745 and then issued again as the present example by Jean Claude Dezauche in 1766.
Original hand-colour. [RUS2626] |