Pierre Mortier. Carte Nouvelle de la Grande Tartarie. 1700.

Pierre Mortier Carte Nouvelle de la Grande Tartarie Paris, 1700 24 ½ x 40 ½ inches Highly Detailed Map of Tartary by Dutch Statesman and Russian Specialist Nicolaas Witsen with details from the Travels of Verbiest in China and De Vries in the North Pacific Nice example of Pierre Mortier's decorative and detailed map showing Central Asia and Tartary published in Amsterdam. The map extends from the Caspian Sea in the west and Nova Zemla in the northwest towards northern China, Korea and the islands of Japan in the southeast of the map. It was one of the most detailed regional maps to date. The title emphasizes the area known as Grand Tartarie, or Great Tartary, a geographic entity referred to by cartographers from the Middle Ages to the early twentieth century. It stretched from the Caspian Sea and the Ural Mountains all the way east to the northern Pacific Ocean. The region was often split further into more local designations, as this map shows with Tartares Circasses and Tartarie Orein