ABSTRACT
Caucasia - I: 210,000 (5 verst to the inch) Issued by Geographical Section, General Staff. War Office 1941 (2nd ed.). In 52 sheets-complete. Caucasia - 1:420,000 (10 verst to the inch) 'Map of the Caucasian region compiled at the MilitaryTopographical Section of the Caucasian Military Area, Tiflis, 1869.' 22 cloth-backed folders-complete. In Russian. Walchusht's maps - For particulars, including the varying scales of these maps, see Commentary on the Sources: 3, Prince Wakhusht's 'Geographical Description of Georgia'. The six maps reproduced by Brosset in his edition ofWakhusht are a basic source for the historical topography of Georgia. Olearius's map of the course of the Volga is excellent. His general maps of Caucasia and of the south-east coastlands of the Caspian are superficial but his views of several cities and towns of the Volga and Caucasia are fine. Guillaume Delisle-'Carte des pays voisins de la MerCaspienne' of 1723. Much of the original detail in this map can be traced to Saba Sulkhan Orbeliani (see Allen in 1M, Vol. XIII (1956)). Atlas Rossiiskoy of 1745; also Atlas Russicus - edition in Latin and French. Joseph-Nicolas Delisle - 'Carte generale de la Georgie et de l' Armenie' of 1766.
