Description

This uncommon small map shows the area between Riga, Lithuania, Ukraine and Novogorod in Russia. It is based on a 1720s map of the region by Guillaume de l’Isle, (1675 – 1726).

It was made by Jan de Lat (1734-1750), publisher of atlases and small maps from Deventer. In the years between 1734 and 1750 he worked together with the engraver Jacob Keyzer. The map was published in a pocket atlas Atlas Portatif tres exact on livre de cartes geographiques… Weerelds Hand-Atlas.