Strahlenberg, Philipp Johann von (sold)
Philipp Johann von Strahlenberg (October 6, 1677 - September 7, 1747), aka Philip Johan Tabbert, was a Swedish army officer of Germanic descent. Strahlenberg was born in the Hanseatic town Stralsund, now Pomerania, Germany, but then part of Sweden. Strahlenberg joined the Swedish army in 1694, being promoted to Captain in 1703. When he was ennobled in 1707, he took the name Strahlenberg. During the Great Northern War (1700 - 1721) between Russia and Sweden, Strahlenberg was captured and sent to Tobolsk, where he lived the commodious life of a noble prisoner of war from 1711 to 1721. During this time, he developed a fascination with the the geography of Siberia and studied the anthropology, languages, and customs of its indigenous peoples. He also worked as an assistant to the German explorer and naturalist Daniel Gottlieb Messerschmidt (1685-1735), who was then working for Peter the Great. Along with fellow Swedish prisoner, Johan Anton von Matérn, Strahlenberg dedicated himself to the composition of a large new map of Russia. Strahlenberg recommended that the Ural Mountains serve as the eastern borders of the European continent, an idea that was later approved by the Tsar. He returned to Sweden in 1722, and in 1730 he published an important book about Siberia, Das Nord- und Ostliche Theil von Europa und Asia (North and Eastern Parts of Europe and Asia), and its accompanying map.
The Only Glimpse of Strahlenberg's Second Lost Map.
Geographica Nova ex Oriente Gratiosissima, Duabus Tabulis Special. contenta, quarum Una Mare Caspium, Altera Kamtzadaliam, seu Terram Jedso.
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One of Johann Christoph Homann's most interesting and influential works: his 1725 map of the Caspian Sea, and an extremely up-to-date map of Kamchatka. Two maps in one, it juxtaposes two opposite parts of Asia: the Caspian Sea at the western border of Asia and Europe, and the Peninsula of Kamchatka, the easternmost known point in continental Asia. (more details)
Strahlenberg's stolen 1715 map of Asiatic Russia and the Tatar Empire.
Carte nouvelle de tout l'Empire de la Grande Russie dans l'estat ou il s'est trouvé à la mort de Pierre le Grand. Dressée sur des observations toutes nouvelles et dedoée à l'immortelle memoire de ce Grand Monarque Avec Privilege à Amsterdam.
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This rare, separately issued map of the Russian Empire was printed by Renier and Josua Ottens c. 1730, but the map is based on the work of Philipp Johann von Strahlenberg. It is that mapmaker's first map of Russia and Siberia, stolen from him in 1715. Strahlenberg (1677 - 1747) would rebound to produce his superb 1730 Tattariae Magnae, one of the largest, most groundbreaking, and unique maps of Russia to appear in the first half of the 18th century. This beautiful engraving represents the first complete expression of Strahlenberg's efforts at his seminal mapping of Siberia and the Russian Arctic. (more details)
The most important map of the Northeast Passage and pre-Behring map of the NE Asian Arctic.
Nova Descriptio Geographica Tattariae Magnae Tam Orientalis Quam Occidentalis In Particularibus Et Generalibus Territoriis Una Cum Delineatione Totius Imperii Russici Imprimis Siberiae Accurate Ostensa.
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A cartographic masterpiece defined by imprisonment, war, and obsession. This is the first edition of Philipp Johann von Strahlenberg's 1730 map of Russia and Siberia. Strahlenberg's expansive map is considered one of the largest, most groundbreaking, and unique maps of Russia to appear in the first half of the 18th century. It is of particular importance to the mapping of Siberia and the Russian Arctic, to establishing expectations for the viability of a Northeast Passage, and to the pre-Bering mapping of the Bering Strait. (more details)