A Mirror of the World: Five Centuries of Geographical Atlases
[Atlas of the Baltic Sea].
Kniga rozmernaya gradusnykh kart Ost-Zee ili Varyazhskogo moray napechatana poveleniem Tsarskogo velichestva v Sanktpiterburkhe Leta gospodnya 1719. Maya v 20 den'. St.-Petersburg, 1719
1vol. (12 pl.) 53х30 cm. Copperplate engraving.
Shelfmark: К 1-Балт 8/1
It is the second edition of the first Russian maritime atlas. The maps were re-engraved from maps in a Swedish atlas of the Baltic Sea, which was compiled on the basis of surveys carried out under the supervision of Swedish admirals Werner von Rosenfelt and Peter Gedda in the 1670s and 1680s. The first edition appeared in 1714. In 1718 and 1719 the atlas was re-issued with identical content. Three new maps, based on surveys by I.L. Lyuberas and A.N. Nagaev, were added to the later edition of the atlas, published in 1723. Only the first edition of the atlas has survived in two copies, of the other editions only a single copy remaines.
[The Map of Easten Part of the Baltic Sea].
Rozmernaya gradusnaya karta nad Ost-Zee ili Varyazhskim morem nachinayushchayasya ot Skagena dazhe Do nord Bodem iSankt Piters Burkha. Predely imesta pri-smotreny opisany, vvmeste svedeny, Poprilezhnomu opisaniyu Vitse Admirala Shvetskogo Berna Rosenfelta. 1694. Godu. [1714]
1pl. 61х53 cm. Copperplate engraving.
Scale: [1:1 850 000].
The map shows states, populated places along the coast, anchorages, navigation channels, mouths of the inflowing rivers, water depths, shoals and sandbanks, rocks and reefs, compass points. Swedish coats of arms of the individual areas are also depicted on the map. The title of the map is within a decorative cartouche with an image of the crowned double-headed eagle holding oak and laurel branches in its beaks and a shield with Peter the Great's monogram in its claw, and figures of navigators with a sounding lead, a nautical map and a measuring instrument.
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