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Map Carte de la Turquie D'Asie, de la Perse: de l'Afghanistan, du Belouchistan et de la grande Boukharie; avec une partie des Etats voisins

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Title

  • Carte de la Turquie D'Asie, de la Perse: de l'Afghanistan, du Belouchistan et de la grande Boukharie; avec une partie des Etats voisins

Summary

  • "This 1848 map of the Middle East and parts of Central and South Asia is by the French cartographer and engraver Pierre M. Lapie (1779-1850), a colonel in the French army and head of the topographical section in the Ministry of War. Accurate and beautifully detailed, the map reflects the high quality of French cartography, and military cartography in particular. The territory covered includes the Nile Valley and the Nile delta, Cyprus and present-day Turkey, the countries of the eastern Mediterranean, Persia, Afghanistan, and Bukhara and other khanates in Central Asia that within a few decades were to come under Russian rule. The map provides scales of distance in no fewer than nine different units: myriameters (10,000 meters), leagues, English miles, German miles, nautical miles, Turkish agachs, Persian fersangs, hours of walking or marching required to cover a given distance, and Russian versts. Paris is given as the prime meridian. The map at one time belonged to the Geographic Section, U.S. Department of State, but was transferred to the Library of Congress." World Digital Library.

Names

  • Picquet, Charles.
  • Lapie, M. (Pierre), 1779-1850.

Created / Published

  • Paris : Imp. E. Kaepplin, [1848]

Headings

  • -  Afghanistan--Maps
  • -  Middle East--Maps
  • -  Afghanistan
  • -  Middle East

Genre

  • Maps

Notes

  • -  Prime meridian: Paris.
  • -  Relief shown by hachures.
  • -  Shows parts of lower Nile and Nile Delta in Egypt.
  • -  Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.

Medium

  • 1 map : mounted on linen, col. ; 58 x 131 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • G7420 1848 .P5

Repository

  • Library of Congress Geography and Map Division Washington, D.C. 20540-4650 USA dcu

Digital Id

Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2013593003

Online Format

  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Picquet, Charles, and M Lapie. Carte de la Turquie D'Asie, de la Perse: de l'Afghanistan, du Belouchistan et de la grande Boukharie; avec une partie des Etats voisins. [Paris: Imp. E. Kaepplin, 1848] Map. https://www.loc.gov/item/2013593003/.

APA citation style:

Picquet, C. & Lapie, M. (1848) Carte de la Turquie D'Asie, de la Perse: de l'Afghanistan, du Belouchistan et de la grande Boukharie; avec une partie des Etats voisins. [Paris: Imp. E. Kaepplin] [Map] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2013593003/.

MLA citation style:

Picquet, Charles, and M Lapie. Carte de la Turquie D'Asie, de la Perse: de l'Afghanistan, du Belouchistan et de la grande Boukharie; avec une partie des Etats voisins. [Paris: Imp. E. Kaepplin, 1848] Map. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/2013593003/>.