"Carte de Tartarie Dressee sur les Relations de Plusieurs Voyageurs de Differentes Nations et sur Quelques Observations...", Delisle/Buache

This is Buache's edition of Delisle's expansive map that spans from Novaya Zemlya in the north to Afghanistan and includes Russia, Northern China, and Tibet. The Pacific coast shows a portion of the Terre d'Eso, with the small Isle d'Amour shown above. The map is fully engraved with forests and mountains, and it features quite good detail of cities and towns for the period. The Great Wall is graphically depicted, as are the extensive trade routes. A decorative cartouche surrounds the title in the lower left. This edition carries Delisle's imprint "A Paris Chez l'Auteur sur la Quai de l'Horloge a l'Aigle dOr avec Privilege 1706" in the title cartouche and Buache's imprint at bottom right. The map was engraved by des Rosiers and the cartouche was engraved by N. Guerard.

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Condition: B+

Contemporary outline color on watermarked paper with minor soiling and short centerfold separations at top and bottom.