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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

    ИЗЪЯСНЕНІЕ / ДВУХЪ ПРИ АКАДЕМІИ НАУК / ГРЬІДОРОВАННЬІХЪ ОПЕРАЦІОННЫХЪ КАРТЪ ... // Erklärung / der bey der Akademie gestochenen / zweyen Operations=Carten, / davon die eine den Titul führet: Theatrum Belli

    c.1737

    Letterpress text framed with tooled design, printed on paper | 48.9 x 39.7 cm (image) | RCIN 728001.d

    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). Although the text is the same as that which appears on RCIN 728001.c, the spelling of some words differs, and the setting is different.

    Condition: one fold line; a small hole in the centre of each lateral margin.

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

    • Watermark: C & I HONIG

      Condition: one fold line; a small hole in the centre of each lateral margin

    • 48.9 x 39.7 cm (image)

      56.0 x 45.8 cm (sheet)

    • Printed title:

      ИЗЪЯСНЕНІЕ / ДВУХЪ ПРИ АКАДЕМІИ НАУК / ГРЬІДОРОВАННЬІХЪ ОПЕРАЦІОННЫХЪ КАРТЪ ... // Erklärung / der bey der Akademie gestochenen / zweyen Operations=Carten, / davon die eine den Titul führet: Theatrum Belli etc d.i. Schau-Platz der im Jahr 1737. von der / Armee Ihro Kayserl. Majest. von Rußland, wider die Türcken und Tatarn, geführten Krieges. [a descriptive key to RCINs 728001.a and b in Russian and German, printed in two columns on one sheet]

      Annotations:

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

      Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [top left, black pencil:] 1736; [right centre, black pencil, erased:] VIII/8-d; [left centre, black pencil, underlined and erased, illegible, 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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