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[EMPIRE OTTOMAN]. RIZZI-ZANNONI (Giovanni-Antonio) Carte de la partie sept

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[OTTOMAN EMPIRE]. RIZZI-ZANNONI (Giovanni-Antonio) Carte de la partie septentrionale de l'Empire Otoman dédiée à Monseigneur le Comte de Vergennes...
[s.l.], 1774. 1 copper-engraved map, 74 x 157 cm, period salmon cloth, blue silk outlines, in period marbled ochre slipcase (25 x 18 cm.), title page, handwritten author and title label (rubbing to slipcase).
Beautiful map of the northern part of the Ottoman Empire, engraved on copper by J. Perrier and Bourgoin le jeune after Giovanni-Antonio Rizzi-Zannoni. Printed on three sheets assembled and covered with contemporary cloth, it bears on the verso a label from the Parisian publisher and distributor Charles Piquet.
It extends from part of Bulgaria and Asia Minor in the west, to the Caspian Sea in the east. It encompasses part of present-day Turkey, the Balkan peninsula showing Bulgaria, Romania, Ukraine, the Caucasus and part of southern Russia. It features a fine decorative title cartouche engraved by J. Arrivet, as well as ships in the Black Sea.