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"Carte de Moscovie...", Delisle, Guillaume
Subject: Russia in Europe
Period: 1706 (dated)
Publication:
Color: Hand Color
Size:
25.8 x 19.5 inches
65.5 x 49.5 cm
This is the northern sheet of Delisle's important two-sheet map of the Russian Empire. The map is centered on Moscow and provides great detail of the towns, roads, forests and topography. The map is decorated with a nice title cartouche featuring a sleigh, coat of arms, animals and a hunter.
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Condition: B+
A nice impression on watermarked paper with contemporary outline color, minor soiling, and toning confined to the edges of the sheet. There are a few short edge tears and centerfold separations at top and bottom that have been archivally repaired. Small remnants of hinge tape on verso.
