Map · Italian
La Tartaria Indipendente delineata sulle ultime osservazioni (Independent Tartary drawn from the latest observations), Rome 1789, Nuovo atlante geografico universale vol. III (1801)
(11) La Tartaria Indipendente delineata sulle ultime osservazioni. Roma, presso la Calcografia Camerale, 1789.
Giovanni Maria Cassini, Rome (Calcografia Camerale)
How we know
compilation Assembled from earlier sources. The author did not observe it directly.
Compilation from published surveys and travel reports; no observation by the mapmaker.
Research notes
- Derived from d'Anville and French sources; Cassini's atlas plates are decorative re-engravings.
- Rumsey note: Relief shown pictorially. Includes decorative title cartouche and bar scale. In Volume III.
Why it matters
Italian 1789 use of 'Tartaria Indipendente' as a distinct map title, earlier than Cary's 1806 British sheet, showing the division was pan-European by the late 18th century.
Places named
Independent Tartary: Kirghiz steppe, Khiva, Bukhara, Turkestan; Caspian; Aral
Who copied whom
Earlier in the chain
- this one was drawn from it (probable)Cassini 1789 from d'Anville and Vaugondy
Keep exploring
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