Carte de la Turquie D'Asie, de la Perse : de l'Afghanistan, du Belouchistan et de la grande Boukharie : avec une partie des Etats voisins / contributor Picquet, Charles. Lapie, M. (Pierre), 1779-1850.
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TextLanguage: English Publication details: Paris : Imp. E. Kaepplin, [1848].Description: 1 map : color ; 58 x 131 cmSubject(s): LOC classification: - G7420. C377 1848
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Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University | G7420.C377 1848 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | The digital file donated from Library of Congress-World Digital Library, PDF is available in ACKU. | 3ACKU000506922 |
“Description Shows parts of lower Nile and Nile Delta in Egypt. Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridian: Paris. Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image”.
“Map of Asian Turkey, Persia, Afghanistan, Balochistan, and the Khanate of Bukhara, with Some of the Neighboring Countries : This 1848 map of the Middle East and parts of Central and South Asia is by the French cartographer and engraver Pierre M. Lapie (1779-1850), a colonel in the French army and head of the topographical section in the Ministry of War. Accurate and beautifully detailed, the map reflects the high quality of French cartography, and military cartography in particular. The territory covered includes the Nile Valley and the Nile delta, Cyprus and present-day Turkey, the countries of the eastern Mediterranean, Persia, Afghanistan, and Bukhara and other khanates in Central Asia that within a few decades were to come under Russian rule. The map provides scales of distance in no fewer than nine different units: myriameters (10,000 meters), leagues, English miles, German miles, nautical miles, Turkish agachs, Persian fersangs, hours of walking or marching required to cover a given distance, and Russian versts. Paris is given as the prime meridian. The map at one time belonged to the Geographic Section, U.S. Department of State, but was transferred to the Library of Congress”—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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