SAYER, Robert (1725-1794), The European Part of the Russian Empire [Joined With] The Asiatic Part of the Russian Empire

SAYER, Robert (1725-1794).
The European Part of the Russian Empire [Joined With] The Asiatic Part of the Russian Empire...
Engraved map with original hand color in outline.
London: Robert Sayer, 1788.
21 1/2" x 52" sheet.

Two tremendously detailed maps, with two title cartouches, joined (as issued) to cover the whole of Russia and showing the full extent of the empire with its new provinces on the Black Sea. The map was compiled from the maps of the Imperial Academy at St. Petersburg with additional information from Capt. Cook in Kamchatka. From Thomas Kitchin's A General Atlas, describing the whole Universe.