Description:

FULL TITLE:Plan von Conatantinopel

A chart of the Bosphorus Straits stretching from the sea of Marmara to the Black sea. The engraving shows numerous towns on both sides of the Straits and includes a ten point key to Constantinople.

From a book by A M Myller recounting his travels from 1725 to 1727. Myller journeyed from Rome to Jerusalem then on to Troy, Gallipoli and Constantinople. From Constantinople he travelled to Egypt and then to Syria. Finally from Syria he travelled to Malta and back to Rome.

Publication: Peregrinus in Jerusalem (Fremdling zu Jerusalem), by A. M. Myller, published inVienna & Nurnberg.

Rare.

Conditon: GG

Cartographer: Myller

Date: 1735

Technique: Copper Engraving

Colour: Uncoloured

Width (cms) x Height (cms): 19.1 x 11.1

Ref: JJB0451