Karte von der ostlichen Tartarey zu der allgemeinen Reisebeschreibung aus den Karten der Jesuite

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Article ID ASX0468

Title

Karte von der ostlichen Tartarey zu der allgemeinen Reisebeschreibung aus den Karten der Jesuite

Description

Map shows eastern Tartaria , Manchuria with the river Armour and the island Sachalin.

Year

ca. 1749

Artist

Bellin (1703-1772)

Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703 Paris -1772 Versailles) was a French cartographer, engineer-geographer, marine hydrographer. As a contributor to the Encyclopédie, he wrote more than a thousand articles on maritime topics. As a cartographer, Bellin distinguished himself primarily in the field of sea cartography. From 1721 he worked for the Dépot des Cartes et Plans de la Marine, from 1741 until his death as an engineer-hydrograph of the Navy. In 1753 his atlas Neptune français, which covered all the coasts of France, was published, and in 1756 the hydrography françoise covering all seas of the earth. In 1764 the five-volume Petit Atlas maritime was published, which Bellin prepared on the orders of the Minister of the Navy, Choiseul. In addition, he wrote a number of geographical works and with Nouvelle méthode pour apprendre la geographie (1769) a geographic textbook for teaching. His maps illustrated, among other things, Bougainville's work Voyage autour du monde, published in 1771. As a co-author of the Encyclopédie edited by Diderot and d'Alembert, Bellin wrote more than a thousand articles in the field of shipping and navy.

Historical Description

Until the end of the 18th century, Tatarei was the name for a large region in Central Asia, Northern Asia and parts of Eastern Europe. This land was the homeland of the Tatars, as the Mongols and the Turkic peoples were generalized by Europeans. The territory of the Mongol Empire and its successor states covered large parts of the Tatarei.The historical name Tatarei were used by Europeans from the Middle Ages until the 19th century, but is no longer in use today. Tatarei gradually lost its importance as political and ethnic conditions changed with the expansion of the Russian Empire and Russian settlement, and the process of assimilation by the Russian Empire was completed with the dissolution of Free Tartarei in the early 19th century.

Place of Publication Paris
Dimensions (cm)21 x 31
ConditionVery good
Coloringcolored
TechniqueCopper print

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