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:
1728
Short Title:
Maris Caspii Littori occidentali inter Fluviorum Wolgae et Kur Ostia
Publisher:
Kayserl. Academie der Wissenschafften
Publisher Location:
St. Petersburg
Type:
Atlas Map
Obj Height cm:
51
Obj Width cm:
39
Scale 1:
1,806,000
Note:
Outline color map. Showing Caspian Sea between the western shore of the rivers Kur and the Volga, and adjoining provinces. Title in Russian. Text in Russian and German. Elaborate cartouche on lower left corner, with 4 figures representing different peoples of the Caucasus. Relief shown pictorially.
Reference:
Phillips, 3109, 4060; Postnikov, p. 42-49, Bagrow, Russian Cartography to 1800, chapter 10.
Country:
Russia
Region:
Caspian Sea Region
Region:
Volga River Region
Full Title:
Maris Caspii Littori occidentali inter Fluviorum Wolgae et Kur Ostia adiacentium Terrarum Provintiarum et Locorum eorumque Incolarum. Descriptio, Simul ac in Provincus Schirwan et Lesgistan inter Russos et Turcas Terrarum Divisionis Linea Anno 1727 determinata.
List No:
5825.030
Page No:
(23)
Series No:
32
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:
5825030
Authors:
L'Isle, Joseph Nicolas de; Akademiia nauk SSSR; Academie der Wissenschafften; Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg
