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[THE CAUCASUS KRAI].Biblio.com
Road Map of the Caucasus Region. Title in Russian: . Scale 20 miles per inch 1:840000.
Best.-Nr. 65574Tbilisi: Compiled and Lithographed at the Military Topographical Department of the Caucasus Military District 1870 with corrections to August 1896. Original large-format colour-lithographed map of the Caucasus 132 x 151 cm dissected into 24 panels and backed onto linen text in Cyrillic script folding down to 33.5 x 27 cm. With an extensive key decorative title cartouche and table showing the divisions of the Caucasus. The linen backing is in places dust-soiled and stained some tiny holes in the edges from former wall mounting that have been repaired somewhat browned overall and with a few minor brown spots a few small marginal tears not affecting map repaired with contemporary strips of paper linen edges are slightly frayed in places withal a very good example of this scarce and impressive map. A rare and large-format wall map of the Caucasus region in Russian. The map covers the modern territories of Armenia Georgia Azerbaijan Dagestan Chechnya Kalmykia etc. The map extends south to Tehran and north to Astrakhan. The eastern Black Sea is on the left and the western Caspian Sea is on the right. Beneath the title is a depiction of a railway winding through the mountains and opposite it a galloping horse with a cart crossing the mountains. Later editions were published at least until 1883 and 1903. The later edition is mentioned in 20th-century works dealing with international border disputes in the Caucasus. At the time of its creation it was almost certainly the finest map of the Caucasus produced in the Russian Empire. Tbilisi: Compiled and Lithographed at the Military Topographical Department of the Caucasus Military District, 1870 (with correc unknown
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