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Very good. Some water staining and creases, else an attractive example with original outline color. Size 14 x 18.5 Inches. This is Carl Ritter and Heinrich Mahlmann's 1839 map of the Altay region of central Asia. This map was compiled at a time when Europeans knew little of this region, but compiles the tracks of European explorers who, between 1771 and 1829, explored the mountainous region. It represents a revolutionary amalgam of explorers' accounts and speculation expounded through the lens of Ritter's German Romantic theories of the Earth as a 'cosmic individual'. A Closer Look Coverage embraces an area incorporating primarily modern-day Altai Krai and the western part of the Altai Republic. Kazakhstan lies to the southwest. The map notes the borders of the Russian and Chinese Empires, as well as the administrative regions of Kolyvan, Barnaul, Kuznetsovo, Charysh, and Ust-Kamenogorsk (Oskemen, in Kazakhstan.) The map is a dense amalgam of the accounts of the mainly German and Russian explorers and naturalists who had ventured into this tenuously understood and hitherto poorly mapped region. Its detail ranges from post roads, cities, fortresses, and other defenses to remote, outposts, villages, mines, factories, yurts, and even abandoned villages. The cartographers were assiduous in naming their sources, which appear in a table, along with voyage dates, in the upper right. That being said, the exceptional density of cartographic information presented belies the fact that this region was then only tenuously understood and poorly mapped. Publication History and Census This map was compiled by Carl Ritter and Heinrich Mahlmann. It was engraved by Mahlmann and published by Carl Ritter and Franz August von Etzel. It is extremely scarce, with no history on the market. We do see examples at the David Rumsey Collection, the University of Milwaukee, the British Library, Utrecht University, and Leiden University. References: OCLC 1123112491. Rumsey 7925.012.
Seller Inventory # Altai-ritter-1839
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