Title: Entwurf zu einer Charte von Klein Asien. Eine Berichtigung der geographie desselben, nach den neuesten astronomischen Bestimmungen des B. Beauchamp
und aus itinerarischen Angaben zusammen getragen. Auf der Seeberger Sternwarte 1799.
[Drafting a Chart of Asia Minor. An Adjustment to the Same Geography, According to the Latest Astronomical Observations by B. Beauchamp and Information Gathered at the Seeberger Observatory in 1799]
Weimar: Industrie-Comptoirs, 1799
8vo. 2 pages, plus a rare fold-out map measuring approximately
7.25 inches x 10.5 inches (18.5 cm x 26.5 cm). Text is in German.
This is a complete monthly issue, containing the above mentioned account.
Attractively bound booklet style in recent blue paper covers with label.
This issue contains a remarkable early map of Asia Minor, which remains largely
blank, and two pages describing the latest observations gleaned by astronomists.
Map extends from the southern Black Sea coast, west as far as the ancient city Smyrna,
south to Latakia or Latakiyah in Syria, and east to Erzurum. Shows historically significant locations such as Constantinople, Basra, Aleppo and the Marmara Sea.
These are the original pages printed in 1799, and NOT a reprint.
This narrative is from a rare multi-volume geographical and scientific journal titled "Allgemeine Geographische Ephemeriden", which issued fifty volumes from 1798-1816
and which encompassed critical contemporary topics of geography and astronomy.
Adam Christian Gaspari and Franz Xaver von Zach were editors of this important
scientific journal.
Anatolia (Turkish: Anadolu), or Asia Minor is a geographic region of Western Asia, comprising most of the modern Republic of Turkey. The region is bounded by the
Black Sea to the north, the Caucasus to the northeast, the Iranian plateau to the
southeast, the Mediterranean Sea to the south and the Aegean Sea to the west.
Anatolia is known as a cradle to many civilizations throughout human history.
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