1716 – H. Moll – Map of Moscovy Russia, Poland
Title: “Map
of Moscovy, Poland, Little Tartary, and ye Black Sea &c. . .”
Description:
A magnificent large-scale, English map of Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Finland and
the Baltic Countries and extending south to the Black Sea and the Balkans, with
an ornate dedication cartouche to Peter the Great, including a portrait of the
Czar near the bottom of the cartouche.
The map was prepared by Cornelis Cruis (1655-1727), John Thesing and Captain Pamburg,
at the direction of the Czar, with improvements and corrections from Captain
John Perry.
The map also includes inset maps showing the course of the Volga River, the
mouth of the Don River and the area contiguous to the White Sea.
Cartographer: Herman Moll (1654-1732)
Sheet size: 100,0 x
62,5 cm
Year:
1716
Technique: copper
engraving
Condition:
Old restorations see photographs, Two joined sheets.
POLAND POLONIA POLEN POLOGNE POLSKA
POLSKI LITHUANIA LITAUEN LITUANIA
LITHUANIA LITUANIE UKRAINE UKRAINA
UKRANIA UKRANIAE BELARUS BELORUS WEISSRUSSLAND RUSSIA RUSSLAND
OSTROLEKA PLONSK OSTROW WYSZKOW PRUSZKOW SOCHACZEW RUSSIE WARSAW WARSCHAU
WARSZAWA VARSOVIE KRAKOW CRACOW KRAKAU GDANSK DANZIG KIEV KYIV KIOW MINSK WILNA VILNIUS VILNA
WILNO LVIV LWOW LEOPOL LEMBERG BRESLAU WROCLAW
TROKI TRAKAI KAUNAS KOWNO
SAMOGITIA LUBLIN KAMIENEZ CZESTOCHOWA SOSNOWIEC GRODNO HRODNA BREST KALISZ POZNAN RAVA RADOM
KURLAND KIELCE GLIWICE RZESZOW COURLANDE
LODZ SZCZECIN STETTIN POSEN BYDGOSZCZ BROMBERG THORN TORUN GDYNIA KATOWICE BIALYSTOK PULTUSK LIETUVA POLSKA
Gastaldi (Gastaldo,
Castaldi, Castaldo), Giacomo (Jacopo): c1500 - 1566. Born Villafranca,
"La Geographica di Claudio Ptolomeo Alessandrino..."
Gerritsz, Hessel: 1580 - 1632, Assum Nordholland
Grodeckis (Grodreccius; Grodecki; Grodetius; Grodziecki), Vaclovas
(Waclaw;
Wenceslaus):
Jeffreys, Thomas: c1710 - 1771, London
Emanuel Bowen in 1735, Thomas Kitchin, Laurie &
Whittle, and others on regional/world atlases. Of particular interest to this
site,
697 Clüver (mapmaker) - Wolters (Amsterdam publisher) -
Sam. Smith & Benj. Walford (London publisher):
"Veteris et Novæ Regni Poloniæ Magniq Ducatus Lithuaniæ..,"
Leyden and London, in
two new versions (7.5, 9.0 MB) of the second Latin version of the plate
from "Introductionis in Universam
Geographicum," issued from 1624 (with no maps) until 1729 1700
Stridbeck II, The Younger (publisher): "Compendiosa POLONIÆ
Representatio..," Augsburg, in
a greatly-improved image (from 200 KB to 4.5 MB) from his atlas
"Provinciarum Polonia Geog. Descriptio,"
supposedly the first small-format atlas of Poland. On Stridbeck's death in
1716, the plate passed on to Gabriel
Bodenehr, who made changes to the cartouche, and published the maps as his own1714
Chatelain (engraver, after Delisle) - Gueudeville (commentary) -
François l’Honoré & Cie; Frères
Châtelain (publishers): "NOUVELLE CARTE DU ROYAUME DE
POLOGNE.." (1.5 MB), Amsterdam, in
a new version from the First Edition of Tome (Volume) IV of "Atlas
Historique" c. 1720 Homann (geographer/cartographer): "Dvcatvvm
LIVONIÆ et Cvrlandiӕ,
cum vicinis
Insulis Nova Exhibitio Geographica..," Amsterdam, in two new
versions (9.6, 9.2 MB), with a
cartouche pre-dating his "Cum Privilegio S.C.M." -- see the 1730
versions with it New to this site: c. 1725 Seutter (engraver/publisher):
"Livoniæ et Curlandiæ Ducatus cum Insulis
adjacentib. Mappa Geographica exhibiti per Matthæum Seutter Chalcogr.
Augustan." (4.7 MB),
Augsburg, in the only Seutter Livonia map I have seen without the
"privilege" he received n 1731 c. 1727 R. & J. Ottens (
Tirion, Isaac Waldseemüller Zatta, Antonio