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| Keywords: 1827 Finley Map of Russia in Asia - Geographicus - RussiaAsia-finley-1827.jpg A beautiful example of Finley's important 1827 map of Russia in Asia Depicts from the Black Sea and Arabia eastward to the Behring Strait northwards to the Arctic and southwards to Chinese Tartary Show rives forests major cities and mountain ranges The Land of Liakhov more widely known as the Legendary Ivory Islands appears in the Russian Arctic Ivan Liakhov discovered these islands in the late 18th century and was astounded to find that they contained so much fossil mammoth ivory that the entire archipelago seemed to be composed of the stuff Engraved by Young and Delleker for the 1827 edition of Anthony Finley's General Atlas 1827 undated Size in 11 5 9 object history credit line accession number RussiaAsia-finley-1827 Finley Anthony <i>A New General Altas Comprising a Complete Set of Maps representing the Grand Divisions of the Globe Together with the several Empires Kingdoms and States in the World; Compiled from the Best Authorities and corrected by the Most Recent Discoveries</i> Philadelphia 1827 Geographicus-source PD-old-100 Anthony Finley Maps by Anthony Finley 1827 maps Old maps of the Russian Empire | ||||
