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This is a composite map made in WorldMap projecting the location of state, church, and private gardens around the outskirts of Astrakhan' in 1774.

The poster for the series of lectures on the Silk Road in Penn Museum. Also one typical iconic image of the mass's imagination of the term.

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 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…