Robert de Vaugondy, Didier 1723-1786 publisher, cartographer. cartographic map cartographic image fr 1753 monographic [Paris] : [Robert de Vaugondy]., [1753 c.] fre

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par le Sr. Robert de Vaugondy fils, Geographe ordinaire du Roi, Avec Privilege. 1753. Relief shown pictorially. Map of the Ottoman Empire and the wider Near and Middle East, from Turkey to Pakistan, showing the settlements, rivers, hills, lakes, and other topographical features. Includes title in the decorative cartouche formed as an Ottoman tent to the lower left, an Ottoman gentleman seated cross-legged on a divan upon a carpet, another man leaning over a carved plinth to the right. Includes five scalebars in the plain cartouche to the lower right. Titled 'États du Grand Seigneur en Asie, Empire de Perse, Pays des Usbecs, Arabie, et Égypte : par le Sr Robert de Vaugondy.' in the Catalogue of Maps, Prints, Drawings, etc., forming the geographical and topographical collection attached to the Library of his late Majesty King George the third, etc., London, 1829. Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.01202 Print Map Item-ID: i11404772 BIB-ID: 2764255 a------ Scale approximately 1:775,000 (E 24°26ʹ00ʺ--E 69°41ʹ00ʺ/N 43°04ʹ00ʺ--N 12°02ʹ00ʺ). Asia Maps Early Maps to 1800 Asia Arabian Peninsula Maps Early Maps to 1800 912.4251 1064079921 rda UKMGB 940104 20200409090755.0 on1064079921 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.5 using MARC21slim2MODS3-5.xsl (Revision 1.111 2016/3/24) eng