![CASPIAN SEA -- A collection of hydrographic maps, including the Bay of Baku. Moscow: Ministry of the Navy, 1868-1870 [but 1870-1873]. 6 engraved maps (c.660 x c.970mm and the reverse), printed on strong paper coated blue on the verso after drawings by Lieutenant Filipov corrected by Popov and others. (Small losses in the margins reaching into the engraving of 3 maps, generally light soiling.)](https://www.christies.com/img/LotImages/2013/CSK/2013_CSK_09702_0424_000(caspian_sea_--_a_collection_of_hydrographic_maps_including_the_bay_of074946).jpg?w=1)
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CASPIAN SEA -- A collection of hydrographic maps, including the Bay of Baku. Moscow: Ministry of the Navy, 1868-1870 [but 1870-1873]. 6 engraved maps (c.660 x c.970mm and the reverse), printed on strong paper coated blue on the verso after drawings by Lieutenant Filipov corrected by Popov and others. (Small losses in the margins reaching into the engraving of 3 maps, generally light soiling.)
A series of large hydrographic maps of the Caspian Sea, principally parts of the shoreline of Azerbaijan, an area of great importance in the history of oil extraction -- Baku and the Absheron Peninsula were the centre of the oil trade in the 19th-century. The maps are based on the survey undertaken by the 1st Ivashintsov Regiment from c. 1857-1867 under the command of Lieutenant Filipov, and were printed just ahead of the first significant inflow of foreign investment in the region in the 1870s. The maps show: Baku Bay (printed reference number 1563); the southernmost point of the Absheron Peninsula and Pirallahi Island (1562); the central part of the Caspian Sea showing the shoreline from Baku to Kizliar (1633); the south-western shore of the Caspian Sea (1635); the eastern shore of the Mangyshlak Peninsula (1639) and the bay of Tiub-Karagan (1640) both in present-day Kazakhstan. Each map bears also a small date stamp ca. 1870-1872, postdating the date in the engraving.
A series of large hydrographic maps of the Caspian Sea, principally parts of the shoreline of Azerbaijan, an area of great importance in the history of oil extraction -- Baku and the Absheron Peninsula were the centre of the oil trade in the 19th-century. The maps are based on the survey undertaken by the 1st Ivashintsov Regiment from c. 1857-1867 under the command of Lieutenant Filipov, and were printed just ahead of the first significant inflow of foreign investment in the region in the 1870s. The maps show: Baku Bay (printed reference number 1563); the southernmost point of the Absheron Peninsula and Pirallahi Island (1562); the central part of the Caspian Sea showing the shoreline from Baku to Kizliar (1633); the south-western shore of the Caspian Sea (1635); the eastern shore of the Mangyshlak Peninsula (1639) and the bay of Tiub-Karagan (1640) both in present-day Kazakhstan. Each map bears also a small date stamp ca. 1870-1872, postdating the date in the engraving.