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DescriptionLisle, Guillaume de.1742. Carte des Pays voisins de la Mer Caspiene, dressee pour l'usage du Roy (E).jpg
Français : Carte des Pays voisins de la Mer Caspiene, dressee pour l'usage du Roy. Sur la carte de cete Mer, faite par l'ordre du Czar, sur les Memoires manuscrits de Soskam-Sabbas, Prince de Georgie, sur ceux de Mrs. Crusius, Zurabek, et Fabritius Ambassadeurs a la Cour de Perse, et sur les eclaircissemens tirez d'un grand nombre de persones intelligentes du pais. Assujetie aux observations astronomiques. Par G. Delisle, Geog. de l'Acad. Roy. des Scien. A Amsterdam, Chez Jean Covens et Corneille Mortier, Geographes. (1742)
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Guillaume Delisle
(1675–1726)
Alternative names
De L'Isle, Guillaume
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French cartographer and Royal geographer
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28 February 1675
25 January 1726
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Paris
Paris
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Paris
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ISNI: 0000000121232028
ULAN: 500405524
LCCN: n50080616
NLA: 36751222
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