Superb map of the Black Sea with a large inset of the Bosporus with Constantinople and its fortifications. The cities of Constantinople, Pultava and Bender are depicted as miniature bird's-eye plans, and a number of additional cities are identified, many connected by old roads. Ukraina is noted north of Crimea. Because of its strategic location, Constantinopole was central to the region’s trade routes, which linked Europe, Persia, the Arabian peninsula, the Horn of Africa, the Caucasus, the Russian steppe, the Balkans, and the Mediterranean Basin.

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Condition: A

A sharp impression on a bright sheet, backed in linen and folded. There are some grayish shadows in the image that are caused by our scanner and do not appear on the map itself, which is quite bright overall.