Little Tartary and Crimea, 1736-7

ИЗЪЯСНЕНІЕ / ДВУХЪ ПРИ АКАДЕМІИ НАУК / ГРЬІДОРОВАННЬІХЪ ОПЕРАЦІОННЫХЪ КАРТЪ ... // Erklärung / der bey der Akademie gestochenen / zweyen Operations=Carten, / davon die eine den Titul führet: Theatrum Belli

? Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg (publisher)

Watermark: C & I HONIG

Condition: one fold line; a small hole in the centre of each lateral margin

48.9 x 39.7 cm (image)

56.0 x 45.8 cm (sheet)

Printed title:

ИЗЪЯСНЕНІЕ / ДВУХЪ ПРИ АКАДЕМІИ НАУК / ГРЬІДОРОВАННЬІХЪ ОПЕРАЦІОННЫХЪ КАРТЪ ... // Erklärung / der bey der Akademie gestochenen / zweyen Operations=Carten, / davon die eine den Titul führet: Theatrum Belli etc d.i. Schau-Platz der im Jahr 1737. von der / Armee Ihro Kayserl. Majest. von Rußland, wider die Türcken und Tatarn, geführten Krieges. [a descriptive key to RCINs 728001.a and b in Russian and German, printed in two columns on one sheet]

Annotations:

George III heading: Little Tartary and Crimea 1736-1737.

Other annotations: (Recto) none. (Verso) [top left, black pencil:] 1736; [right centre, black pencil, erased:] VIII/8-d; [left centre, black pencil, underlined and erased, illegible, place-names?]

George III catalogue entry:

Tartary, Little Verus Chersonesi Tauricæ seu Crimeæ Conspectus adjacentium item Regionum. Itinerisque ab Exercitu Rutheno 1736 et 1737 adversus Tartaros suscepti; editus ex autographis Caroli a Frauendorff in Academia Petropolitana. Theatrum Belli a Milite Augustæ Russorum Imperatricis adversus Turcas et Tartaros 1737 gesti: ex autographis in Acad. Scient. Petropol. Explanations of the above Maps in Latin, Russian and German. 2 sheets. [The same entry appears under the heading Crimea.]