COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Akademiia nauk SSSR
Author:
L'Isle, Joseph Nicolas de
Author:
Academie der Wissenschafften
Author:
Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg
Date:
1737
Short Title:
Verus Chersonesi Tauricae Seu Crimeae Conspectus
Publisher:
Kayserl. Academie der Wissenschafften
Publisher Location:
St. Petersburg
Type:
Atlas Map
Obj Height cm:
48
Obj Width cm:
66
Scale 1:
945,000
Note:
Outline color map of Ukraine and Black Sea region, showing the route of the Russian Army in its expedition against the Tatars in 1736 and 1737. Includes sailing ships, and military fortifications. Elaborate title cartouche. Relief shown pictorially.
Reference:
Phillips, 3109, 4060; Postnikov, p. 42-49, Bagrow, Russian Cartography to 1800, chapter 10.
Country:
Russia
Region:
Black Sea Region
Event:
Russo-Turkish War, 1736-1739
Subject:
Military
Full Title:
Verus Chersonesi Tauricae Seu Crimeae Conspectus adjacentium item Regionem Itinerisq ab Exercitu Rutheno Ao MDCCXXXVI et MDCCXXXVII adversus Tattaros suscepti. Editus ex Autographis Carolia Frauendorff Centurionis in Acad: sc: Petropolit.
List No:
5825.033
Page No:
(26)
Series No:
35
Publication Author:
Akademiia nauk SSSR
Publication Author:
L'Isle, Joseph Nicolas de
Publication Author:
Academie der Wissenschafften
Publication Author:
Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg
Pub Date:
1745
Pub Title:
(Atlas Russicus) Russischer Atlas : Welcher in einer General-Charte und neunzehen Special-Charten das gesamte Russische Reich und dessen angraentzende Laender, nach den Regeln der Erd-Beschreibung und den ne Academie der Wissenschafften. St. Petersburg 1745.
Pub Reference:
Phillips, 3109
Pub Note:
The first atlas of Russia, published by the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg, expanding on the cartographic work done previously by Ivan K. Kirilov. Postnikov: "It brings together all the geographical discoveries of the early 18th century to give a fuller picture of the entire Empire than shown in the so-called Kirilov atlas. The maps were mostly based on instrumental surveys, geographical descriptions and maps compiled by the Petrine geologists and their successors." Normally the atlas includes 20 maps; this copy is special in adding an additional 17 maps and 2 text pages, including plans of St. Petersburg and Moscow (similar to Phillips 4060). Maps have titles in German, Latin; place names in Russian and Latin alphabet. Text of cartouches in Latin. Also issued in French and in Russian with title Atlas Russicus and Atlas Rossiiskoi. Atlas contains, 7 p. text with descriptions of the maps, and explanation of geographical names and symbols used in German, Russian, French and Latin, a general map of the Russian empire, 13 maps of European Russia at a uniform scale of 1:1,470,000 (35 versts to one inch); and 6 maps of Siberia at a uniform scale of 1:3,444,000 (82 versts to one inch). Bound in at end: 19 additional text and maps of Russian territories, plans from the Russo-Turkish war of 1736, engravings of military fortifications, maps of Ladoga Lake, environs of St. Petersburg, Kronstadt and the Gulf of Finland. Maps are colored in outline, with some maps in full color. Bound in reddish brown contemporary Russian binding in full calf with simple tooling. Atlas was printed in September 1745 in St. Petersburg in Russian, Latin, French and German, with engravers listed as Ellinger, Unversagt, Zubov and Rostovtsev.
Pub List No:
5825.000
Pub Type:
National Atlas
Pub Maps:
37
Pub Height cm:
53
Pub Width cm:
37
Image No:
5825033
Authors:
L'Isle, Joseph Nicolas de; Akademiia nauk SSSR; Academie der Wissenschafften; Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg
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Verus Chersonesi Tauricae Seu Crimeae Conspectus
