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Auction: 15040 - Antique Maps sale during the International Exhibition
Lot: 175

Maps
Europe
Russia - Caspian Sea
1723 Carte des Pays Voisins de la Mer Caspiene ..., by the de l'Isle family; 29½ x 21½ inches, outline colour.

An example of Guillaume de L’Isle’s 1723 map of the Caucuses; from the Black Sea to Independent Tartary and from Russia to Persia, inclusive of the entire Caspian Sea, and the modern day nations of Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Iran, and Turkey. This is one of de l'Isle’s most important and misunderstood maps. Knowledge of the Caucuses and Caspian Sea region was extremely limited in Western europe and so de l'Isle composed this map from assortment of sources, many of whom he lists in the title cartouche, including the Caspian Sea surveyor Vanverden, Persian diplomats, Georgian aristocratic and religious figures, and various Russian surveys. The result is this remarkably accurate map, a major step forward in the cartographic perspective of the region, and one of the finest maps de l'Isle ever produced. Engraved by Marin for the 1731 issue of de l'Isle’s seminal "Atlas de Geographie".

Usual reinforced centre fold and printed number 118 on the reverse. Clean and fine. Photo

Estimate
SG$1,000 to SG$1,200