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General postal map of Europe recently corrected and supplemented with indication of the newest division of the German Union and other states, and with the inclusion of a Road Map of... Russia

Saint Petersburg
1821
General postal map of Europe recently corrected and supplemented with indication of the newest division of the German Union and other states, and with the inclusion of a Road Map of the whole of Russia
Paper is duplicated on fabric, edging: braid; engraving, watercolor
Wall map, folding, on one sheet (assembled of 8 sheets, cut into 27 parts; in a common frame), 64,0 x 203,0 (by frame), 89,0 x 209,0 cm (sheet). The scale is approximately: 1 : 1 680 000. Conic projection; the coordinate greed is not marked
Open storage

Authors abandoned to display vast territories of Siberia and Russian North, and made an insert, a text Description: stations and distances to all postal and a large carriageway roads in Tomsk and Irkutsk Provinces which are not marked on this Map as well as in Arkhangelsk province from town of Kemah to town of Kola.
The political map of Europe was dramatically changed by the Vienna Congress, the final act of which was signed in 1815, a few days before the battle of Waterloo. One of the decisions of the Congress was the creation of The German Union, an analogue of the Holy Roman Empire of the German nation. However, signing of the final Act by participants kept on going until 1820, when it was at last signed by the Kingdom of Bavaria.
In the lower left corner are placed used on the map abbreviations of names of the states that made up The German Union.

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