Contributor Anville, Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d', 1697-1782. Bourgoin, P.
[Paris] : [Sr. D'Anville], [1740].
1 map ; 25 x 42 cm.
French
,Middle East – Maps – Early works to 1800.
,Afghanistan – Maps – Early works to 1800.
G7420. / A695 1740
Library of Congress Classification / Map
3ACKU000507250
French language. “Description Relief shown pictorially. "Tome III, page 547, xxv." Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image”.
“The Expeditions of Alexander: Made for “Histoire Ancienne” by Mr. Rollin : This map shows the expeditions of Alexander the Great (356–323 BC) from the Hellespont, the strait (later called the Dardanelles) that separates Europe from Asia in present-day Turkey, through Turkey, the Levant, Egypt, Mesopotamia (present-day Iraq), Persia (Iran), and Afghanistan. Alexander reached as far as the banks of the Hyphasis River (now known as the Beas River) in northern India, where the conqueror’s exhausted armies finally mutinied. Shown are cities that Alexander founded and named “Alexandria” in honor of himself. Two distance scales are given, the ancient measure of stadia, and contemporary leagues. The map is by the French cartographer and geographer Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville (1697−1782) and, as indicated in the title, was made to illustrate Histoire Ancienne (Ancient history) by Charles Rollin (1661–1741). D’Anville was one of the most important mapmakers of the 18th century, known for the accuracy and scientific quality of his maps. Rollin was a professor of rhetoric and university official who wrote his major works in retirement, including Histoire Ancienne, a 12-volume history that appeared between 1730 and 1738”—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.