Russo-Turkish Wars
The wars of 1735–9, 1768–74 and 1787–92
Turkey and Balkans, 1738
TOONEEL DES OORLOGS AAN DEN DNIEPER, TIRA EN DONAUW / IN DEN JARE 1738 GEVOERD, GEDRUKT IN DE AKADEMIE DER WETENSCHAPPEN / VAN PETERSBURG. // THÉATRE DE LA GUERRE SUR LES RIVIERES DE DNIEPER, / TIRA ET DANUBE, FAITE...
1738 or laterEngraving and some etching; printed on paper; hand-coloured | Scale: 1:2,000,000 approx. | RCIN 728016
This map is based on RCIN 728015 and shows the principal rivers, roads, and fortified towns of parts of Albania, Anatolia, Bosnia, Bulgaria, the Crimea, Dalmatia, Hungary, Macedonia, Moldavia, Poland, Romania, Servia and Slavonia as well as the march of the Russian army to Ochakov. This Dutch version of the Russian original was advertised in the Amsterdamsche courant of October 9th and 14th 1738 (Van der Krogt, 1985, adverts 758 and 759) and copies printed on silk have been recorded (Van Egmond, 2009, p.414).
Condition: one fold line; trimmed. Verso: stained and surface dirt.
Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg (cartographer) [top left, below title, in title cartouche:] Excus. in Academia Scien = / tiarum Petropolitana.
Jan Punt (1711-79) (draughtsman) [top left, below title cartouche:] I. Punt del. et fecit.
Johannes Condet (1711-81) (engraver)
Gerardus Condet (1715-64) (engraver) [bottom left, below border:] I. en G. Kondet sculp.
Covens & Mortier : Amsterdam (Johannes Covens (1697-1774) and Cornelis Mortier (1699-1783)) (publisher) [top left, following on from Dutch title:] te Amsterdam by J.COVENS en C. MORTIER.
Watermark: None
Condition: one fold line; trimmed. Verso: stained and surface dirt
Scale: 1:2,000,000 approx. Scale bars: Scala Werstarum Ruthenicarum. [55 mm = 104½]; Scala Miliariorum Germanicorum. [55 mm = 15].
44.4 x 60.3 cm (neatline)
48.8 x 61.9 cm (image)
49.6 x 63.2 cm (platemark)
50.4 x 63.5 cm (sheet)
Printed title:
TOONEEL DES OORLOGS AAN DEN DNIEPER, TIRA EN DONAUW / IN DEN JARE 1738 GEVOERD, GEDRUKT IN DE AKADEMIE DER WETENSCHAPPEN / VAN PETERSBURG. // THÉATRE DE LA GUERRE SUR LES RIVIERES DE DNIEPER, / TIRA ET DANUBE, FAITE EN L'ANNÉE 1738. IMPRIMÉE / Á L'ACADEMIE DES SCIENCES A PETERSBOURG. [top, outside border, in Dutch and French]
Printed title:
THEATRUM / BELLI / ad / Borysthenem / Tyram / & / Danubium / Fluvios / gesti / A=o MDCCXXXVIII. [top left, in rococo cartouche]
Annotations:
George III heading: Turky 1738.
Other annotations: none.
George III catalogue entry:
Turky Theatrum Belli ad Borysthenem, Tyram, et Danubium Fluvios gesti, 1738: excusus in Academia Scientiarum Petropolitana, apud Covens et Mortier.
Subject(s)
Balkans
Poland
Romania
Hungary
Turkey
Russia
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