contenant une carte générale et dix neuf cartes particuliéres de tout l'empire de Russie et des Pays Limitrophes...Russischer Atlas..., Latin, French & German, 2 engraved keys to symbols, 15 double-page engraved regional maps only (of 19, lacking numbers 6, 7, 10, 13 and also lacking the large folding map of Russia), contemporary Russian panelled sheep with elaborate gilt borders, worn with considerable loss to spine, [Phillips Atlases 4060], folio, St Petersburg, Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1745. *** A significant part of the Atlas Russicus, the first atlas devoted solely to Russia. Joseph-Nicolas Delisle had originally been commissioned in 1726 by Peter the Great to assist Ivan Kirilov in his survey of Russia, but the two favoured very different approaches resulting in the first part of Kirilov's atlas being published in 1734 but remaining unfinished by the time of his death, and the present work by Delisle not appearing until 1745. When complete it contains a large general map (hand-coloured in outline), thirteen maps of European Russia and six of Siberia. "As the most complete representation of Russia to date, the atlas gave the European public a knowledge of the vastness and complexity of the Russian Empire." Whittaker. Russia Engages the World, 2003.
contenant une carte générale et dix neuf cartes particuliéres de tout l'empire de Russie et des Pays Limitrophes...Russischer Atlas..., Latin, French & German, 2 engraved keys to symbols, 15 double-page engraved regional maps only (of 19, lacking numbers 6, 7, 10, 13 and also lacking the large folding map of Russia), contemporary Russian panelled sheep with elaborate gilt borders, worn with considerable loss to spine, [Phillips Atlases 4060], folio, St Petersburg, Imperial Academy of Sciences, 1745. *** A significant part of the Atlas Russicus, the first atlas devoted solely to Russia. Joseph-Nicolas Delisle had originally been commissioned in 1726 by Peter the Great to assist Ivan Kirilov in his survey of Russia, but the two favoured very different approaches resulting in the first part of Kirilov's atlas being published in 1734 but remaining unfinished by the time of his death, and the present work by Delisle not appearing until 1745. When complete it contains a large general map (hand-coloured in outline), thirteen maps of European Russia and six of Siberia. "As the most complete representation of Russia to date, the atlas gave the European public a knowledge of the vastness and complexity of the Russian Empire." Whittaker. Russia Engages the World, 2003.
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