Tartaria - Antique map

Author: Bertius, Petrus

Publisher: Hondius, Jodocus

Publishing year: 1616

Northeast Asia."Tartaria". Copper-engraving by P. Bertius published by J. Hondius, 1616-18. With 2 small ornamental cartouches. 9,4:13,4 cm.

Koeman III, map 8050:342, ed. 342:01 (1616/1618 Tabulae) - A miniature map of Tartary (a name used by Europeans from the Middle Ages until the twentieth century to designate a great tract of northern and central Asia stretching from the Caspian Sea and the Ural Mountains to the Pacific Ocean inhabited by Turkic and Mongol peoples).

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