Russia Muscovy Poland Lithuania Tartary Astracan c.1790 Elwe scarce Dutch map

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Partie Meridonale De Moscovie. Dressee par G. De L'Isle Rectise & Augmente. Chez Jan Barend Elwe a Amsterdam.

(Europe, Russia, Muscovy, Ukraine, Poland, Lithuania)

Issued 1792, Amsterdam by J. B. Elwe.

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

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 Muscovite, German, & Polish miles.

Engraved area pleasing and clean, some wrinkling to bottom and top blank margins which will disappear once framed.

Folio. Original fold line as issued.

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

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

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

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