Vandermaelen Russia Siberia

Philippe Vandermaelen.
Partie de la Russie D'Asie. [Sheet 5]
Brussels, 1827. 470 x 530mm. Original colour.
£85
The area around Waigatch Island, with the Karsky Straits (between Novaya Zembla and the mainland), the main route to the east. The map was published in the first atlas of the world on the same scale, some of the more remote areas of the world such as this are shown in unprecedented detail. VAND0015