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Sea as Land: Infrastructure, Politics and Oil in the Caspian Sea

This French map of the Russian Empire features the northern half of the Caspian Sea, as well as sites of industry and political borders.

1 map, hand colored; 47 x 57 cm.
Relief shown pictorially. Depth shown by soundings. Covers portions of Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan, Russia, Azerbaijan and Iran.
Includes notes and illustrations. "Cum Priv. S. C. M."

This image shows the road networks featured in Abraham Maas's map "Nova Maris Caspii" as they radiate south along the Caspian from Astrakhan and into the Caucasus.

This early map of the Caspian was published by Reiner Ottens in his appears in his Atlas maior (1720). This publication is primarily in Latin but contains notes in Dutch as well as place names in Greek, Russian, Persian, Arabic, and Turkish (in Latin…

1 map, hand colored, 47 x 57 cm.
Depth shown by surroundings. Oriented with North to the left. Colored in outline. Includes illustrations.
Appears in: Atlas maior cum generales omnium totius orbis regnorum rerumpubi, atque insularum tum…

This map features just the railroad network as produced in a map of the Russian Empire from 1910.