"Carte de Tartarie Dressee sur les Relations de Plusieurs Voyageurs de Differentes Nations et sur Quelques Observations qui ont ete Faites dans ce Pais...", Delisle, Guillaume

Subject: Northern Asia

Period: 1706 (dated)

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Color: Hand Color

Size:

25.3 x 19.2 inches
64.3 x 48.8 cm

This is the first edition of Delisle's expansive map that spans from Novaya Zemlya in the north to Afghanistan and includes Russia, Northern China, and Tibet. The Pacific coast shows a portion of the Terre d'Eso, with the small Isle de Amour shown above. The map is fully engraved with forests and mountains, and it features quite good detail of cities and towns for the period. The Great Wall is graphically depicted, as are the extensive trade routes. A decorative cartouche surrounds the title in the lower left. This edition carries Delisle's imprint "A Paris Chez l'Auteur sur la Quai de l'Horloge a l'Aigle dOr avec Privilege 1706." The map was engraved by des Rosiers and the cartouche was engraved by N. Guerard.

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Condition: A

A sharp impression with contemporary outline color in the map and later color in the cartouche, on a bright sheet with a Society of Jesus watermark. There is a printer's crease at bottom center, a tiny tear at right, and light toning along the edges of the sheet.