4 Mai 2009 / Cartothèque de l’IFEA
4 Mai 2009 / Cartothèque de l’IFEA – la carte de la semaine : Très belle carte du Bosphore issue de l’atlas de stanford de Londres version folio de 1896.« The Bosphorus and Constantinople » and « The Dardanelles and the Troad »; issued London, 1896. An enormous folio sheet map of The Dardanelles and the Troad on the left and The Bosphorus and Constantinople on the right from the very scarce 1896 revised and enlarged folio edition of Stanford’s monumental « London Atlas of Universal Geography. » Originally produced in honor of the Queens Jubilee in 1887, this second issue some 9 years later completely revised all the maps, thus creating this unique series which are found nowhere else. Beautifully lithographed with original hand color,