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[DE L'ISLE, Joseph Nicolas] (1688-1768). Russischer Atlas welcher in einer General-Charte und neunzehen Special-Charten das gesamte Russische Reich und dessen angräntzende Länder...vorstellig macht. St. Petersburg: Academie der Wissenschafften, 1745
2° (525 x 350mm). Letterpress title, 3pp explanation of the maps, 3pp geographical dictionary from Russian transliteration to German, the final page including an engraved legend in German, 19 hand-coloured maps on 20 double-page leaves (the map of Totius Imperii Russsici on two plates), 16 additional hand-coloured double-page maps of Russia in Russian, Latin and German, bound in at end. (Outer margin of title and 3 text leaves strengthened.) Late Eighteenth century papered boards. Provenance: Majoräts Bibliothek zu Pappenheim (old library stamps on title and verso of maps).
A fine German edition of the first atlas devoted solely to Russia published by the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences. Joseph Nicolas De L'Isle, elder brother of Guillaume, Geographer to Louis XIV and XV, studied under Cassini, and went to St. Petersburg in 1726. With the assistance of the secretary of the Senate, Kiriloff, he founded the Academy of Sciences. Together they set about producing an atlas of the Russian Empire. The colouring of this copy is particularly fine and has the addition of 16 further maps by the Academy of Sciences, similarly coloured bound in at the end. These maps comprise: Ingria et Carelia; Magnus Ducatus Finlandiae; a general map of Karelia and Lake Ladoga, and 3 detailed maps of the course of the Ladoga canal, all in Russian and Latin; a plan of St. Petersburg, in cyrillic and German; a plan of Moscow, with accompanying letterpress explanation in Cyrillic; Maris Caspii; 7 unsigned military maps of Russian army campaigns against the Turks in Southern Russia, 5 by De L'Isle, one folding, two with accompanying explanation. Nordenskiold I 65; Filov and others 2422; Russica A-1058.
2° (525 x 350mm). Letterpress title, 3pp explanation of the maps, 3pp geographical dictionary from Russian transliteration to German, the final page including an engraved legend in German, 19 hand-coloured maps on 20 double-page leaves (the map of Totius Imperii Russsici on two plates), 16 additional hand-coloured double-page maps of Russia in Russian, Latin and German, bound in at end. (Outer margin of title and 3 text leaves strengthened.) Late Eighteenth century papered boards. Provenance: Majoräts Bibliothek zu Pappenheim (old library stamps on title and verso of maps).
A fine German edition of the first atlas devoted solely to Russia published by the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences. Joseph Nicolas De L'Isle, elder brother of Guillaume, Geographer to Louis XIV and XV, studied under Cassini, and went to St. Petersburg in 1726. With the assistance of the secretary of the Senate, Kiriloff, he founded the Academy of Sciences. Together they set about producing an atlas of the Russian Empire. The colouring of this copy is particularly fine and has the addition of 16 further maps by the Academy of Sciences, similarly coloured bound in at the end. These maps comprise: Ingria et Carelia; Magnus Ducatus Finlandiae; a general map of Karelia and Lake Ladoga, and 3 detailed maps of the course of the Ladoga canal, all in Russian and Latin; a plan of St. Petersburg, in cyrillic and German; a plan of Moscow, with accompanying letterpress explanation in Cyrillic; Maris Caspii; 7 unsigned military maps of Russian army campaigns against the Turks in Southern Russia, 5 by De L'Isle, one folding, two with accompanying explanation. Nordenskiold I 65; Filov and others 2422; Russica A-1058.