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Today's Rare Map: Old Antique map of Kazachstan, Oezbekistan and Turkmenistan, Georgia


Date: 1762, made in Paris.
Author: Bonne, R.

Rigobert Bonne (1727-1795), French cartographer. His maps are found in a.o. Atlas Moderne (1762), Raynal's Histoire Philos. du Commerce des Indes (1774) and Atlas Encyclopedique (1787-1788).A map centered on what is called on the map 'Tartarie Independante', the area east of the Caspian Sea with Kazachstan, Oezbekistan and Turkmenistan, also depicting Georgia and Iran.

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