Vandermaelen Russia Siberia

Philippe Vandermaelen.
Partie de la Russie D'Asie et de la Chine. [Sheet 32]
Brussels, 1827. 470 x 530mm. Original colour. Paper lightly toned.
£59
The area around the city of Irkutsk, near the Russian/Mongolian border, marking the western end of Lake Baikal. 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. VAND0017