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Summary
General-content map of the European part of the Ottoman Empire (with emphasis on Greece) and the eastern Mediterranean Sea region.
Relief shown pictorially.
In Latin (including place-names).
Title printed in embellished cartouche (images of ancient coins).
Prime meridian: Ferro.
This map is similar to Map 13a in Johann Baptist Homann's "Grosser Atlas über die gantze Welt", Nürnberg, published by Johann Ernst Adelbulner, 1716 (Phillips no. 5966).
Available also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
There is no handwritten Millard Fillmore signature on recto or verso.
There is a lead-pencil annotation showing an island identified as "Parthia" in the Mediterranean Sea between Crete and Libya.
Hand colored to emphasize province boundaries within the Ottoman Empire and to indicate coastlines.
When affixed to cloth backing the map sheet was sectioned to 12 panels to enable folding.
LC sheet imperfect: Use-worn, taped at fold lines on cloth backing, 2 LC accession rubber stampings in map-content area (upper border and lower right).
Includes text, numbered notes in upper margin, and 4 bar scales.
Paper slip with Fillmore number "241 1741" affixed to cloth backing (verso); various handwritten annotations on cloth backing (verso): Carte de la Grèce -- 1741 -- Grecia 1741 -- 18 [ou?].
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