- Bib ID:
- 7460555
- Format:
- Map
- Author:
- Russia. Armii︠a︡. Glavnoe upravlenie Generalʹnogo shtaba. Otdel general-kvartirmeĭstera, cartographer
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Scale:
- Scale approximately 1:345,000. 8 versts or 9333 English yard to an English in. (E 32°15ʹ--E 37°00ʹ/N 46°12ʹ--N 44°20ʹ).
- Description:
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- London : Corps of engineers, 1854
- 1 map : dissected and mounted on linen ; 65.8 x 124.0 cm, in cover 23.4 cm
- Series:
- Maps of the seat of war ; 2.
- Partial contents:
- Inset: Chart of the harbour of Akhtiar or Sevastopol, shewing the situations of all the magazines, barracks, storehouses and arsenals employed by the Russians for their fleet in the Black Sea, the soundings of all the bays, &c.&c.&c. also a complete survey of the roads of Akhtiar or Bay of Inkerman, the Ctenus of Strabo, and of all the coast to the most western point of the Heracleotic Khersoneesus with the site of the ruins of the new and old Khersoneesus of Strabo, or Heraclea of Pliny, from actual observations made upon the spot for the use of the Russian Government. Scale approximately 1:53,340. The Russian Sajen or fathom equals 7 English feet.
- Notes:
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- Military map of Crimea Peninsula showing roads, places covered with forests and thick underwoods, orchards, gardens, and vineyards, in which the celebrated Muscat Grape is grown, water mills, and post stations. Relief shown by hachures; depths in inset map shown by soundings.
- "The Russian names, title and observations were translated or rendered into English by Major Jervis himself, and various useful and important additions also made to the original Russian map."
- "Map of the seat of war," 11.4 x 16.3 cm., mounted on verso.
- Issued as no. 2 of Maps of the seat of war, for the many prepared under the direction of Major Thomas Best Jervis ... of the Corps of engineers, E.I.S., specially and by authority for the use of the staff and officers of the allied armies and the government.
- Greenwich meridian.
- Publishers and series statement from labels mounted to inside front cover.
- Includes "Population of the four districts, constituting the Peninsula of the Krima or Crimea as given by Count Demidoff. April 1839", text, and "Explanatory observations".
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-522948871
- Subject:
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- Time Coverage:
- 1854
- Other authors/contributors:
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- Also Titled:
- Crimea
- Copyright:
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- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
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- Artistic
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1857
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1854
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