Copper-engraved map, hand coloring in outline. 29x63 cm (11½x24¾"), backed with linen, sectioned for folding. Rare map of the Dardanelles, the Hellespont of antiquity, connecting the Aegean Sea to the Sea of Marmara. There are insets of four forts. OCLC lists only two examples, one in the British Library, one at Sachsische Landesbibliothek in Germany. Part of the sequence of maps "Carte generales des Limites entre les trois Empires..." in illustration of the Russo-Turkish War of 1787-1792.
Copper-engraved map, hand coloring in outline. 29x63 cm (11½x24¾"), backed with linen, sectioned for folding. Rare map of the Dardanelles, the Hellespont of antiquity, connecting the Aegean Sea to the Sea of Marmara. There are insets of four forts. OCLC lists only two examples, one in the British Library, one at Sachsische Landesbibliothek in Germany. Part of the sequence of maps "Carte generales des Limites entre les trois Empires..." in illustration of the Russo-Turkish War of 1787-1792.
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