Hand col. outlines, engraved, 21 x 29 cm. on atlas sheet 26 x 36 cm. ;"Grave par Chamouin, rue de la Harpe No.35" and "Ecrit par Giraldon" in lower margin. ;Map straddles the boundary between the Austrian and Ottoman Empires. ;The Provinces Illyriennes (Illrian) are the lands of the north and east coast of the Adriatic Sea ceded by the Austrian Empire in 1809 to the French Empire (Croatia, Carinthie, Carniole, Dalmatie, Triest ...) ;Ottoman Empire portion of map includes: Serbia, Bosnia, Herzegovina, Bulgaria etc. ;Includes place names, administrative borders and geographic features. ;Relief shown by hachures. ;Possible source: "Atlas complet du precis de la Geographie Universelle du Malte-Brun" dressee par M. Lapie ..., Paris, 1812. ;Additional description available in J. Eugene Horvath's: A Canadian collection of Hungaria [CCH]. v. 2, Maps & city views 1493-1817. (Library has book). ;Map from the Horvath Collection [CCH-141].

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