45. HERISSON EUSTACHE, LA GRANDE TARTARIE.
Paris 1806, Jacques Desray, drawing and engraving. Eustache Hérisson (?), 22 x 18 cm; (card: 25.5 x 20.5 cm), passe-partout 50 x 32.5 cm.
Colored copperplate map of the so-called Great Tartary, the area from the Caspian Sea to the Pacific, a name used in European cartographic studies from the Middle Ages to the 20th century. The name was mistakenly associated with the Mongols, who conquered one of the Asian tribes just called the Tartars, and Europeans associated it with Tartary, or the land of the underworld. Today it is an area in much of Asiatic Russia. The map comes from an atlas by the famous geographer Eustache Hérisson (1759-1818), "Atlas Portatif," consisting of 45 sheets. In the upper right corner the number "37", referring to the number of the map in the atlas. Map bound in white passe-partout.
Piece bdb preserved, clear imprint of copperplate, clear colors, generally flawless.