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RUSS101 - THOMAS, COWPERTHWAIT "Russia In Europe" Phila. 1850. Colored. 12X10. Very detailed map shows western Russia from the Baltic Sea and the Gulf of Finland & the White Sea to Russia's eastern border in Asia. Locates all principal cities, towns, villages, harbors, governments (depts.) rivers, canals & lakes. Decorative border frame. 

RUSS102 - MAST, CROWELL, KIRKPATRICK "Map of Russia" Phila. 1892. Colored. 11X9. Detailed map showing boundaries of Russia in western Europe at the end of the 19th. century. Locates the Baltic Sea, the Gulf of Finland, the White Sea. All major cities, towns, villages, harbors, rivers are shown along with the Ural Mountains on Russia's eastern border in Asia. Also shows the Black & Caspian Seas. 

RUSS103 - J. TALLIS "Russia in Asia" London c. 1850. Colored. 10X13. Map shows northern Russia, Siberia & Russia's arctic coastline to the Kamtchatka Peninsula. Locates all principal cities, towns, villages & harbors, mountain ranges and rivers. Includes 4 finely engraved vignettes 1. Skorskarskoi Pagosh (Church) 2. Men fighting a large bear aided by wolves 3. Kamtchatkan dogs. 4. Troitsk (coastal fishing harbor). Includes a decorative border frame in scroll and leaf motif. 

WESTERN RUSSIA

RUSS104 - JAMES PLAYFAIR "Russia in Europe" Edin. 1821. Colored. 21X18. Large double page map shows the Gulf of Bothnia and the Gulf of Finland; the White Sea to the north, the Sea of Azof and the Caspian Sea to the south with the mouth of the Volga River. Locates many towns, rivers, lakes all in fine detail and shows states and divisions in different colors from Archangel in the north to Catherinoslav and Donkozaks in the southern regions. Shows also, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Smolensk, Novgorod, Kiev, Penza, Vladimir, Orel, Kostroma, Vologda, Coursk, Polotsk, Revel & Riga and many more. (Light browning at centerfold, otherwise good condition.) 

RUSS105 - J. N. BELLIN "Carte De La Siberie Et des Pays voisins pour servir a l'Histoire Générale des Voyages." Paris. c.1754. Colored. 11½X18. Striking chart of Russian Siberia & its environs above & below the Arctic Circle. Locates the Icy Sea in the north covering the coastline from the White Sea across to the island of Zemle & thence over to the largely unexplored coast at 145° E. Long. & 75° N.Lat. to what is now the North Siberian Plain & the New Siberian Island regions. Below the Arctic Circle the chart shows the Russian cities of Archangel, St. Petersbourg, & Moscow & the Caspian & Aral Seas; and toward the east chart shows mountains & rivers, small towns & settlements covering a very large area. This is a fascinating chart, finely engraved, with a very decorative title cartouche designed with trees, a shell, & ice & snow motifs in top left. (Included in De La Harpe's Voyages. 1780.)

RUSS106 - J. N. BELLIN "Suite de la Carte de La Siberie Et le Pays de Kamtschatka Pour l'Histoire Générale des Voyages." Paris 1754. Colored. 9½X10. Fine chart of eastern Siberia above and below the Arctic Circle, shows the Sea of Okhotsk & the Kamtschatka Peninsula & the Island of Sagalin & the Penschinskaja Guba. Depicts Russia's northern coastline along the Icy Sea from approximately 85° E. Long. to 180°E. Long.& shows the tracks of a voyage made in 1648 by 3 Russian ships en route to explore Kamtschatka via the Bering Strait. Below the Arctic Circle chart shows many mountains & rivers, small towns & settlements. Includes a very decorative title cartouche in top right designed with leaf, flower & scroll motifs. (Included in De La Harpe's Voyages. 1780.)

RUSS109 - J. N. BELLIN "Partie De La Mer Glaciale Contenant La Nouvelle Zemble et Le Pais Des Samoiedes Suivant les Découvertes des Hollandois et les Cartes des Russes Pour servir a l"Histoire Générale des Voyages." Paris. 1755. Colored. 9½X13. Fine chart of the Russian island called ' Nouvelle Zemble' by the French & by the Russians 'Novaya Zemlya' located off western Russia's Arctic coast. Chart shows mountains on the iisland & harbors around the coasts & depicts the Kara Strait (called Détroit de Weigats) separating the island from the mainland regions called 'Samoiedes.' Chart is based on Dutch & Russian surveys with a note that the Dutch landed on the northeast shore in 1596. Includes two compass roses & a very decorative title cartouche in top left with leaf, flower, & scroll motifs.The island is known for seals, walrus, furs and whale fisheries. (Included in De La Harpe's Voyages. 1780.) 

RUSS110 - J. N. BELLIN "Carte Du Détroit De Weigats ou De Nassau, suivant les Navigateurs Hollandois Pour l'Histoire Générale des Voyages." Paris 1755. Colored. 8X12.Chart shows an enlarged section of southern Nouvelle Zemble (Novaya Zemlya), the island off western Russia's Arctic coast. Depicts the Détroit de Waeigats (current Kara Straits) dividing the island from the mainland regions. The Island was also called "Isle De Waeigats" & the Russian coast was called by the Dutch 'Nouvelle Hollande" in 1594 during their Arctic explorations. It was also called "Samoiedie" the name given to the coastal inhabitants. Chart includes the track of the Dutch ships in 1594, two compass roses with rhumb lines radiating across the chart and a very decorative title cartouche with leaf & scroll motifs. (Included in De La Harpe's Voyages. 1780.) 

RUSS111 - J. N. BELLIN “Carte Des Pais Habités par Les Samojedes Et Ostiacs Pour L'Histoire Generale Des Voyages.” Paris. 1780. Colored. 6¼X9½. Finely engraved chart of the Russian Island called Nouvelle Zemle by the French and Novaya Zemblya by the Russians located off Russia's northwestern Arctic coast. Chart also shows the Russian mainland with mountains & rivers & inlets. Locates the Weigatz Strait (Kara Strait) dividing the island from the mainland & shows the Arctic Circle crossing the mainland which is called "Land of the Samojedes" and "Land of the Ostiacs." Chart is based on Dutch and Russian surveys & the title is in an ornamental box design topped with decorative scrolls. Published in De La Harpe's ‘Voyages’ of 1780.

RUSS113 - British Admiralty: “Black Sea-Sheet V. Sea of Azov.” London 1854 (Corrected to 1967). Includes Crimea, Caucasus and Taurida. 26"x40" #2234.

RUSS116 - A. PETERMANN “Prof. Nordenskiolds Fahrt Um Die Nordspitze Asiens Im Dampfer-Vega. August 1878.” Gotha. 1879. Colored. 14½X19½. This fine chart shows the track of Capt. Nordenskjold's Whaler, the Vega, sailing from Lena on Russia's Arctic coast around the East and West Taimyr Peninsulas. Baron Nils Adolf Erik Nordenskjold (1832-1901) was an Arctic explorer, historian and geologist, born in Helsinki, Finland who moved to Stockholm. Sweden in 1858. He commanded the first successful transit of a Northeast Passage in 1878-1879. To accomplish this feat he left Tromso on 21st July 1878 and passing through the Yugor Strait, he rounded Cape Chelynski on 19th August and then wintered in 173° E. Long., 120 miles from the East Cape.In the summer of 1879 he passed through the Bering Strait into the Pacific Ocean. (Note: in 1932 a Soviet ice-breaker made the first passage in a single season between the White Sea and the Pacific.) This excellent explorers chart includes a drawing in top left of Nordenskjold's Whaler the Vega and Augustus Petermann included this chart is his famous “Geographische Mittheilungen” published by Justus Perthes in 1879. Nordenskjold became the Head of the Dept. of Mineralogy at the National Museuam of Natural History and Professor at the University of Stockholm. He explored Greenland in 1882-1883 and became a cartographic historian and avid collector gradually building up a huge library of books, atlases and maps. The Nordenskjold Collection is now in Helsinki's University Library. (Ref. Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers. K-P. Page. 333.)

RUSS117 - F. A. Schraembl “Karte Von Dem Caspischen Meer nach Pr. Guldenstaedts Ent wurf gezeichnet von J. Wussin herausgegeben von Hrn. F. A. Schraembl MDCCLXXXVII.” Vienna. 1787. B/W. 19X10. Very well delineated chart of the Caspian Sea ows the primary harbors of Baku and Astrakan. The chart shows both topographical and hydrographical features around the entire coastline of the Sea, locating harbors, bays, small islands and peninsulas. The map was taken from the original by Johann Anton Guldenstadt (1745-1781) a naturalist and physician from Riga, Latvia, who published it in 1776. Later, it was included in the “Algemeiner Grosser Atlas” issued by Franz Anton Schraembl in Vienna in 1787. An excellent chart. 

RUSS119 - J. F. G. LA PEROUSE “Plan of the Kuriles Islands and Lands Little Known situate in their Vicinity from a Manuscript Chart in the Archives of Ochotsk, Communicated by Mr. Lesseps in 1788.” London. 1794. Colored. 19X14¼. This fine map shows the Kuriles Islands situated north of Japan's Hokkaido Island and stretching northward to Russian Kamptchatka. The islands were visited by Count J. F. G. La Perouse during his round-the-world-voyage in 1785-88. Accompanying La Perouse on the voyage was Baron Jean Baptiste Bathelemy de Lesseps (1766-1834), a French diplomat who had been Vice Consul at Russia's Baltic Port of Kronstadt, near St. Petersburg, prior to going to sea as a Russian interpreter. On his return to France in 1788, de Lesseps provided the French publishers of La Perouse's “Round the World Voyage” with charts and information on the Kuriles Islands, that he had obtained from the Russian Archives in Ochotsk. This excellent chart has notes on it regarding the inhabitants of the Islands and their Chiefs. In the top left corner of the chart is a depiction of the Aleutian Islands titled “Part of the Aleutian Islands, little known from a Manuscript Chart in the Archives of Ochotsk, communicated to Mr. Lesseps.” This chart was published by G. G. & J. Robinson in the English edition of the “Atlas Du Voyage De La Perouse” originally published in Paris in 1787.

RUSS120 - P. LAPIE “Russie D'Europe” Paris. 1812. Colored. 12X8½. Very detailed map of Russia in Europe, shows hundreds of cities, towns and villages and harbors and bays along the Arctic Coast including the island of Nova Zembla. Also depicts the Gulf of Bothnia, the Baltic Sea and the Black and Caspian Seas. The title is in a wreath in top center of the map. Engraved by J. B. Tardieu, the map was published under the direction of Captain Pierre Lapie (1777-1850), geographer to King Louis XV111, and topographer to the French War Department and issued in “Atlas Complet Du Precis De La Geographie Universelle” by Conrad Malte Brun (1775-1826.) in Paris in 1812. An attractive map, finely engraved.

RUSS121 - P. LAPIE “Partie Septent. De La Russie D'Europe” Paris 1812. 8½X12. Colored. Fine, very detailed map of Russia's northern regions shows the White Sea and the harbor of Arkangelsk, Laponie Russe, The Arctic Sea Coast, the Gulf of Bothnia and the Gulf of Finland & includes Estonia, Livorne, Courlande and the Gulf of Varsovie. The map covers the regions of Russia in Europe, and includes hundreds of cities, towns and villages. The title is drawn in the top left corner next to a group of buildings representing cathedrals and palaces. Engraved by Chamouin, the map was published under the direction of Captain Pierre Lapie (1777-1850) geographer to King Louis XV111, and topographer to the French War Department and issued in “Atlas Complet Du Precis De La Geographie Universelle” by Conrad Malte Brun (1775-1826) in Paris 1812. 

RUSS122 - P. LAPIE “Partie Meridionale De La Russie D'Europe” Paris. 1812. Colored. 9X12. Finely detailed map shows hundreds of cities, towns and villages in Russia's southern regions located in Europe. The map depicts the Black and Caspian Seas and the Sea of Azov and goes down to Georgia in the south and the northern border of Turkey showing Constantinople. The title in lower left is drawn inside an oval and surrounded by bunches of cloth and decorative features. Engraved by Chamouin, the map was published under the direction of Captain Pierre Lapie (1777-1850), geographer to King Louis XV111, and topographer to the French War Department and issued in “Atlas Complet Du Precis De La Geographie Universelle” by Conrad Malte Brun (1775-1826.) in Paris 1812. Excellent detail overall. An attractive map. 

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