Ukraine and Western Russia, Antique Map on Two Sheets, Kiev, 1845
US$464
Original antique · The actual sheet photographed · Certificate of authenticity on request · Sold unframed · Worldwide shipping from € 15 (rates)
Date
1845
Mapmaker / artist
Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, London; engraved by John and Charles Walker
Publisher
Charles Knight and Company, 22 Ludgate Street, London
Technique
Steel Engraving
Coloring
Original hand color
Sheet size
43.5 × 35 cm (17.1 × 13.8 in)
Condition
Good
Reference
BG-14487-2-61
What the condition grades mean
Excellent
Bright and clean, with no faults worth mentioning.
Very good
Only light signs of age, such as faint toning.
Good
Normal signs of age for a sheet of this period: toning, some foxing, small marks or neat old repairs.
Fair
Clear faults such as staining, tears or repairs, priced to match.
Every fault we see is written in the condition note, and the whole sheet is shown uncropped in the photos.
Condition
Two sheets, both age toned. Foxing in the margins of all of them. Handling wear to the corners of plate 62. The printed images are clean.
About this sheet
This is an original antique map of Ukraine and western Russia on two adjoining sheets from the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, offered together as one set. The first, Part V of the Society's large map of Russia in Europe, covers what is now western Ukraine and Belarus, with Kiev on the Dnieper near its center, the governments of Vilna, Grodno, Minsk, Mohilev, Volhynia, Podolia and Tchernigov outlined in hand applied color, the Pripet marshes drawn across the north in a broad band of swamp symbols, and Galicia and Bessarabia beyond the frontier. The second, Part VI, takes up at its eastern edge and carries the black earth country from Moscow down to the Ukraine, with Kalouga, Orel, Tula, Kursk, Riazan, Voronezh, Poltava and Kharkov all marked and the land of the Don Cossacks lettered at its lower corner. Both sheets are engraved to village level with the post roads traced across the plain, both name the Imperial Atlas and the surveys of Piadichev among their sources, and both carry a dotted line engraved to show the boundary of Russia and Poland before the Partition Treaty of 1772.
The sheets come from Maps of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, in the new edition corrected to the present time that Charles Knight and Company published at 22 Ludgate Street, London, in 1845, whose first volume covers Europe. The Society was founded in 1826 by Henry Brougham and his circle to publish useful knowledge at a low price. Its maps were issued in parts from 1829, first by Baldwin and Cradock, from 1842 by Chapman and Hall and then by Charles Knight, and the series grew to about two hundred maps. Most of them were engraved on steel by John and Charles Walker, and the outline color was applied by hand.
The sheets of this set belong to one map and are sold together.
Two sheets, both age toned. Foxing in the margins of all of them. Handling wear to the corners of plate 62. The printed images are clean.
The set is two original sheets sold together, never split. These are original antique maps, not modern reproductions. This item is sold unframed. Any framed or interior images are shown for presentation and inspiration only, unless the listing explicitly states that the item is sold framed.
