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Russo-Turkish Wars

The wars of 1735–9, 1768–74 and 1787–92

    ? RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, ST. PETERSBURG

    Little Tartary and Crimea, 1736-7

    EXPLICATIO / DVARVM TABVULARVM GEOGRAPHICARVM AERE IN / ACADEMIA PETROPOLITANA INCISARVM. PRIMA EST ... // ИЗЪЯСБНІЕ ... // Erklärung / der bey der Academie gestochenen zweyer Operations=Carten, davon die...

    1737 or later

    Letterpress text printed within a woodblock-printed border on two sheets of paper, pasted together after printing; hand-coloured; the columns of Latin and Russian text are washed in yellow; the column of German text is washed in blue | 44.6 x 60.8 cm (image and neatline; left column of text: 44.1 x 20.1 cm) | RCIN 728001.c

    A letterpress descriptive explanation of the letters which appear on the maps at RCINs 728001.a and b, together with a description of the principal rivers shown on the map. Russo-Turkish War (1735-9).

    Condition: two fold lines; creased; small tear to bottom of central fold.

    • ? Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg (publisher)

    • Watermark: Strasburg lily and: [RUE] MICHEL

      Condition: two fold lines; creased; small tear to bottom of central fold

    • 44.6 x 60.8 cm (image and neatline; left column of text: 44.1 x 20.1 cm)

      50.4 x 64.6 cm (sheet)

    • Manuscript title:

      EXPLICATIO / DVARVM TABVULARVM GEOGRAPHICARVM AERE IN / ACADEMIA PETROPOLITANA INCISARVM. PRIMA EST ... // ИЗЪЯСБНІЕ ... // Erklärung / der bey der Academie gestochenen zweyer Operations=Carten, davon die eine den Titul / führet: Theatrum belli &c. d.i. Schau-Platz des im Jahr 1737. von der Armee Ihro Kayserl. / Majest. von Russland, wieder die Türcken und Tartarn, geführten Krieges. [a descriptive key to RCIN 728001.a and b in Latin, Russian and German, printed in three columns on one sheet]

      Annotations:

      George III heading: Little Tartary and Crimea 1736-1737.

      Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [top right, black pencil:] 2; [bottom right, black pencil:] 13; [bottom centre, black pencil:] 21; [bottom centre, black pencil, erased:] IV/21; [bottom centre, black pencil, erased:] VIII/1-c; [top, right of centre, black pencil, underlined, erased and partly legible: two place names?].

      George III catalogue entry:

      Tartary, Little Verus Chersonesi Tauricæ seu Crimeæ Conspectus adjacentium item Regionum. Itinerisque ab Exercitu Rutheno 1736 et 1737 adversus Tartaros suscepti; editus ex autographis Caroli a Frauendorff in Academia Petropolitana. Theatrum Belli a Milite Augustæ Russorum Imperatricis adversus Turcas et Tartaros 1737 gesti: ex autographis in Acad. Scient. Petropol. Explanations of the above Maps in Latin, Russian and German. 2 sheets. [The same entry appears under the heading Crimea.]

    • Subject(s)

      ​Crimea

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