Search Results: Russia from Bryars and Bryars

London, c. 1855. Steel engraving, 26 x 32 cms, original outline colour, blank verso; engraved by John Rapkin for the ‘Illustrated Atlas’ with vignettes of Sebastapol, Varna, Odessa, Sinope, Constantinople and Silistra drawn and engraved by Henry Winkles. The map has been updated to show the 300 mile submarine telegraph cable between Varna and Balaclava, laid by Robert Stirling Newall during the Crimean War, which was operational from April 1855. It was the longest submarine cable of its day, cut two days from the time it took to send and receive messages (the typical journey time across the Black Sea by ship) and once linked with the rest of the telegraph system allowed, for the first time (and for good or ill), near instantaneous communciation between Paris and London and the Allied commanders in the field. Map

Paris: P. Dupont for E. Gratier, c. 1855. Lithographed broadsheet map, sheet size 35 x 45 cms, folded into 8 panels, with inset of Sebastopol and view of the battle of the Alma, original hand colour; blank verso with contemporary [ownership?] inscription of M. Schlumberger père, and circular ministère de l'intérieur ink stamp, evidently licensing the map for distribution by colportage. Not in BNF catalogue. Map

Paris: Chez Jean, 1812. Engraved folding map, sheet size 89 x 66 cm, engraved by Vallet, original hand colour, two sheets joined then dissected into nine panels and laid on linen, folding into mottled paper boards, somewhat rubbed and worn. Imperial Russian coat of arms above cartouche; legend top right detailing the regions of European Russia. Moithy died in 1805 and the publisher, Jean, is re-purposing an earlier map, ‘Carte générale de l'empire de Russie comprise en Europe’, which was published in 1788. Our version would have helped the French public follow Napoleon’s invasion of 1812. Three examples of this edition located on Worldcat: OCLC: 494308591 (BNF); 1284691110 (Zurich); 730020786 (SLUB Dresden). Map

Paris, c. 1758. Copper engraving, 21.5 x 32 cms, recent hand-colour, blank verso. The Yugorsky Strait, in the Arctic Sea, separating Vaygach Island from the mainland; here illustrating the Dutch voyage of 1594 by William Barentsz in search of a northeast passage. Map

London, 1854. Third edition, dated October 16, 49.5 x 67.5 cms, insets of the Black Sea region and Sevastopol, original hand colour, laid on linen, folding into publisher’s cloth covers, publisher’s advertisement (‘recent publications’ relating to the conflict) attached to map, facing pastedown, very minor wear. The map was published a month after an allied Anglo-French and Ottoman expeditionary force was landed to invest Sevastopol, and a day before the first bombardment of the city. James Wyld junior inherited a thriving business on the death of his father in 1836. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and succeeded his father as Geographer to Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Map

Vienna, 1789. Copper engraving, 21 x 28.5 cms, original hand-colour, blank verso. Map

London, 1876. Lithographed map, 45 x 57 cms, original colour, light waterstaining in upper margin, blank verso; from the ‘Royal Atlas of Modern Geography’. Map

Vienna, Gustav Wegelein, 1854. Lithograph, 22.5 x 29.5 cm on sheet 25.5 x 32 cm, blank verso with ink stamp of Munich collector Dr Franz Schnitzer (d. 1901; library sold at auction in 1902: #63 of the new contributions added by Einstein and Goldstein to their 1918 edition of Fagan’s ‘Collectors’ Marks’). Austrian pictorial map, satirising the Crimean War, published in July 1854 in No. 55 the 'Illustrirte Novellen-Zeitung' (between pp. 436 and 437). Lithographed by Gustav Wegelein (fl. 1851-80). Austria remained neutral during the Crimean War, fearful of the expansion of Russian influence despite the recent military support it had received from Russia, which kept the Habsburg’s on the throne after the revolutions of 1848. Our map’s creator seems to suggest that the Ottoman Empire was vulnerable to being torn apart by its supposed allies, Britain and France. In the event, neutral Austria, left diplomatically isolated and exposed to invasion and revolution,… Read More

Paris &: St Petersburg, c. 1850. Tinted lithograph, image 31.5 x 43.5 cms, by Jacottet & Regamey after Charlemagne, captions in Russian and French, minor spotting, from a series of 24 lithographic views printed in Paris by Lemercier for the St Petersburg publisher Dazario issed as “Souvenir de St. Petersbourg”. Map

Augsburg, c. 1730. Copper engraving, 49.5 x 58 cms, original hand-colour, blank verso. A detailed early 18th century map of north-western Russia, following the cartography of De l’Isle, which includes the recently-established settlement of St Petersburg, described on the map as a city built by the Tsar. Matthäus Seutter (1678-c.1757) was apprenticed to Johann Baptist Homann in Nuremburg in 1697, but in 1707 returned to Augsburg and founded his own map publishing house, which became the primary competitor of the Homann firm. The rival businesses dominated the German, and to a significant extent the international map markets throughout the eighteenth-century; Tobias Conrad Lotter inherited half of his father-in-law's business and in 1758 he established his own firm, taking his share of the copper printing plates. Map

Paris, 1683. Copper engraving, 14.5 x 10.5 cms, recent hand-colour, French text on verso, from Mallet’s ‘Description de l’Univers’. Map

Paris, c. 1780. Copper engraving, 50 x 62.5 cm, original hand colour in outline, blank verso. Late state of Robert de Vaugondy’s map of southern Russia, Ukraine and parts of Poland. The original date and privilege have been burnished from the plate. Pedley, Bel et Utile: the Work of the Robert de Vaugondy Family of Mapmakers, 78. Map

Paris, c. 1758. Copper engraving, 23 x 36.5 cms, recent hand-colour, blank verso. Map

Edinburgh, c. 1840. Steel engraving, 40 x 50 cms, original hand-colour, blank verso. Map

Paris &: St Petersburg, c. 1850. Tinted lithograph, image 31.5 x 43.5 cms, by Jacottet after Charlemagne, captions in Russian and French, from a series of 24 lithographic views printed in Paris by Lemercier for the St Petersburg publisher Dazario issed as “Souvenir de St. Petersbourg”. Map

Paris, c. 1812. Copper engraving, 27 x 38 cms, original hand-colour, blank verso. Map

London, 1876. Lithographed map, 45 x 57 cms, original colour, light waterstaining in upper margin, blank verso; from the ‘Royal Atlas of Modern Geography’. Map