Map · Latin

Tartaria sive Magni Chami Imperium ex credendis amplissimi viri D. Nicolai Witsen ... et hodie vigentium geographorum archetypis congestum, auctum et in lucem editum a Carolo Allard (Tartary, or the Empire of the Great Khan, compiled from the trustworthy work of Nicolaes Witsen and the prototypes of today’s geographers, published by Carel Allard)

Tartaria, sive Magni Chami Imperium ex credendis ... Nicolai Witsen ..., et hodie vigentium geographorum archetypis congestum, auctum, et in lucem editum a Carolo Allard. amst. Bat. Cum privilegio Potentissimorum D.D. Ordinum Hollandiae et Westfrisiae. (to accompany) La galerie agreable du monde ...

Carel Allard (Amsterdam publisher; plate c.1697), after Nicolaes Witsen's 1687 map; reissued by Pieter van der Aa in the Galerie agreable du monde, 1728

Map: Tartaria sive Magni Chami Imperium ex credendis amplissimi viri D. Nicolai Witsen ... et…, Allard, 1687 — Picture: David Rumsey Map Collection (CC BY-NC-SA). See it at full size at the library

How we know

compilation Assembled from earlier sources. The author did not observe it directly.

Compilation: a reduced re-engraving of Witsen's 1687 Nieuwe Lantkaarte (itself compiled from Russian informant material, embassy routes and Siberian sources; W079 and L009); no observation by Allard.

Research notes

Title credits Witsen; Allard added material 'from today's geographers'. Rumsey's date 1670 predates Witsen's own map (1687) and Allard's activity; the pub_date 1728 (Van der Aa) is the issue date. Witsen's original large map (Nieuwe Lantkaarte van het Noorder en Ooster deel van Asia en Europa) is not on Rumsey; see candidates for Amsterdam/Rijksmuseum copies.
Rumsey note: Engraved folded map depicting Russia, Siberia, and parts of Chinese Tartary, by Nicolas Witsen. Showing political divisions, towns, villages, landmarks, rivers, lakes and mountains. Relief shown pictorially. Source: Atlas maps (Allard).
Also recorded independently by the french dutch pass: Rumsey Luna JSON record retrieved; IA mirror metadata retrieved (7 files, image); zoomable image not sampled (davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/detail/RUMSEY~8~1…).

Why it matters

Identifies the actual state behind the IA identifier dr_tartaria-sive-magni-chami-imperium-ex-credendis--nicolai-witsen--et-11647126: it is Allard's Witsen-derived plate in Van der Aa's 1728 Galerie, not a Blaeu map. Witsen's map was the first European map of Siberia built on Russian data; Allard's reduction is how most of Europe saw it.

Places named

Oceanus Septentrionalis et Glacialis olim Scythicus; Mare Tartaricum; Nova Zembla; Siberia; Ob, Yenisei, Amur; Mare Caspium; Magni Mogolis imperii pars; Chinese frontier