This fine hand colored map is an 1855 steel plate lithograph depicting the Black Sea or Pontus Euxinus and vicinity. Depicts from the Propontis eastward to the Caspian Sea and northward as far as Castle Darin in modern day Ukraine.  Features three inset maps.  Inset in the upper left quadrant features the  Bosporus Thracicus  (Black Sea Side), inset in the upper right quadrant features the  Bosphorus Cimmerius  (Mediterranean Side).  A third inset, in the center right zone, features the  Chersonesus Heracle .  Text in Latin.  Prepared by Justus Perthes as plat no. 27 for Carl von Spruner’s  Atlas Antiquus” .
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1855 (undated)
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