Matched pair of the north and south sheets of Delisle's important map of the Russian Empire. Both sheets provide great detail of the towns, roads, forests and topography. The northern map is decorated with a nice title cartouche featuring a sleigh, coat of arms, animals and a hunter. The southern sheet includes Moscow and features three distance scales. Size given is approximate for each sheet. A very attractive example of this map in original unjoined state.

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Condition: B

Original outline color with faint offsetting and light toning in blank margins. Northern sheet has short centerfold separations at top and bottom that have been closed on verso with Japanese tissue. Southern sheet has a long cut along centerfold at bottom that has been repaired with archival materials, and a minute hole to the east of Moscow due to the oxidation of the original green pigment. The paper of both sheets is quite supple.