Carte de la Turquie D'Asie de la Perse de l'Afghanistan et de l'Arabie / contributor M. Lapie, Pierre Antoine Tardieu.

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“Description Shows colored country borders. Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridian: Paris. "Atlas universel 34e." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image. LC copy annotated in pencil: From Atlas unversel de geographie, M. Lapie et fils, P.C. Lehnby, Paris, 1841”.

“Map of Asian-Eastern Turkey, Persia, Afghanistan, and Arabia : This map, published in Paris in 1842, shows the Asian provinces of the Ottoman Empire, Persia (present-day Iran), Afghanistan, and the Arabian Peninsula. The map appeared in Atlas universel de géographie ancienne et moderne (Universal atlas of ancient and modern geography) by the cartographer and engraver Pierre M. Lapie (1779–1850). Lapie was a member of the corps of topographical engineers in the French army, where he rose to the rank of colonel. He eventually became head of the topographical section in the Ministry of War. He was assisted by his son Alexandre Emile Lapie (flourished 1809–50), also a French military cartographer, who worked with his father over a period of many years. The map provides scales of distance in five different units: myriameters (10,000 meters), leagues, nautical leagues, miles, and, curiously, hours of walking or marching required to cover a given distance. Paris is given as the prime meridian”—copied from website.

The Library of Congress donated copies of the digitized material (along with extensive bibliographic records) containing more than 163,000 pages of documents to ACKU, the collections that include thousands of historical, cultural, and scholarly materials dating from the early 1300s to the 1990s includes books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, newspapers and periodicals related to Afghanistan in Pushto, Dari, as well as in English, French, German, Russian and other European languages ACKU has a PDF copy of the item.

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