Moscow Russia Lithuania Poland Moscovie c.1790 Elwe folio antique hand color map
Moscow Russia Lithuania Poland Moscovie c.1790 Elwe folio antique hand color map Moscow Russia Lithuania Poland Moscovie c.1790 Elwe folio antique hand color map Moscow Russia Lithuania Poland Moscovie c.1790 Elwe folio antique hand color map
$ 225.00

PARTIE MERIDIONALE DE MOSCOVIE
Dressee par G. De L'Isle Rectise & Augmente.
Chez Lan Barend Elwe a Amsterdam

issued Amsterdam, 1792 by J. B. Elwe.

With full original hand color.

Fine and uncommon late 18th century re-issue of the much earlier (c. 1706) de L'Isle map.

Fine 18th century folio map, with Moscow at top center, Lithuania, Ukraine & Poland along left side. Caspian Sea at bottom right corner. Distance scale at bottom left gives distances in Moscovie, Germany & Polish miles.

In Good+ to near VG condition, engraved area pleasing and clean, some wrinkling to bottom and top blank margins which will disappear once framed.

Uncommon and fine map.

Sheet measures c. 26 1/4" W x 21 1/2" H

Printed area measures c. 21 1/2" W x 16" H.

Folio. Original fold line as issued.

Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici , El 2 (21)- although this map has "23" penciled on back in an early hand, seeming to indicate a variant postion within the atlas than the one noted by Koeman- perhaps an unrecorded variant issue of the atlas?

Tooleys Dictionary of Mapmakers , vol. 2, p. 20

R763