A folding chart of the environs of Constantinople

DUPUIS, Louis André.

Carte de la Ville de Constantinople et du Bosphore de Thrace 1785. Carte Réduite des Côtes de la Grece et de L'Archipel. Carte de la Mer Marmora. Plan du Serrail.
Paris, 1785. Dissected and laid on linen as issued. 610 x 960mm.

Three charts and a small town plan on one sheet. The largest is a chart of the Bosphorus including a plan of Constantinople with a 55-point key. The other two charts are of Greece and the Aegean, showing the approaches to Constantinople from the west, and the Sea of Mamora, the eastern appraoches. The plan is of the Topkapi Palace, again with a large key.
The same year Dupuis published similar charts of the Mediterranean, Baltic, Black Sea and the Danube.


Stock ID : 18384