Trescott John (2 results)

Condition: ottima. Incisione in rame con coloritura coeva. Grande carta raffigurante l'espansione dell'Impero Russo sotto il dominio di Caterina la Grande. comprendendo dalla Polonia alla penisola della Kam?atka e le Isole Aleutine. La mappa presenta tre splendidi cartigli: quello con il titolo è arricchito da un'allegoria della cartografia e della scoperta, quello contenete la scala di rappresentazione presenta un obelisco con una E incoronata da alloro (la prima lettera del nome di Caterina in Russo), e in basso a destra c'è una vignetta di Caterina stessa che osserva la mappa delle proprie conquiste durante la guerra Russo-Turca (1768-74). Bel esemplare in ottimo stato di conservazione. Coloured map i, total 650 x 1410mm. A fine large scale coloured map in three sheets conjoined, detailing the expanse of the Russian Empire under Catherine the Great, stretching from Poland to Kamchatka and the Aleutian Islands. There are three cartouches: the title is supported by embodiments of mapmaking and discovery, the scale has an obelisk with an 'E' crowned with laurels (the first letter of Catherine's name in Russian), and bottom right is a vignette of Catherine herself looking at a map of her conquests during the Russo-Turkish war (1768-74), aided by Mercury, a view of St Petersburg behind. This map was first published in St Petersburg in 1776. Formato: 143x735mm.

Venice: Remondini, 1782. Coloured. Three sheets conjoined, total 650 x 1410mm. A fine large scale map detailing the expanse of the Russian Empire under Catherine the Great, stretching from Poland to Kamchatka and the Aleutian Islands. There are three cartouches: the title is supported by embodiments of mapmaking and discovery; the scale has an obelisk with an 'E' crowned with laurels (the first letter of Catherine's name in Russian); and bottom right is a vignette of Catherine herself looking at a map of her conquests during the Russo-Turkish war (1768-74), aidedd by Mercury, a view of St Petersburg behind. This map was first published in St Petersburg in 1776.