An Historical Map of the Roman Empire and the neighbouring Barbarous nations : to the Year of our Lord Four hundred when the Empire began to be rent with foreign Invasions /
L'Isle, Guillaume de,1675-1726.
Moll Herman
Bowles Thomas
Bowles John
Overton Philip
King John
London : H.Moll, Th. Bowles, John Bowles, P.Overton, J.King,
[1709-173-] .
Relief shown pictorially.
Some subdivisions outlined in colour.
Insets : Supplementum theatro historico [Western hemisphere, 17.6 cm diameter] ; Supplementum teatro historico [Eastern hemisphere].
Bottom left hand corner : four scale indicators "Scala" - "Milliaria Romana quorum 75 uni Gradui respondent, 250"[=4.5 cm], "Stadia Graeca quorum 600 uni Gradui respondent, 2000"[=4.5 cm], "Leucae Gallicae antiquae quarum 50 uni Gradui respondebant,150"[=3.8 cm], "Parasangae Pers. quarum 18 uni Gradui respondent, 60"[=4.5 cm].
Notes and text references to classical authors both in Latin and English.
Note from the publisher : "The Original of this Map, which underwent ye examination and had ye Approbation of ye Academy Royall at Paris, being very Scarce by reason of ye present War, and ye Usefulness of it so well known to those that are versed in ye Roman Histories I have at ye Desire of some of ye highest quality made a coppy of it, wherein most of ye Quotations are translated for ye benefit of ye English reader".
North up. Marginal grid. Prime meridian according to Ptolemy.
Commercial mention : Printed for H.Moll Geographer Tho:Bowles Printseller in St Pauls Church Yard, John Bowles Printseller at the Black Horse in Cornhill and over against Devereux Court, without Temple Bar Phillip Overton at ye White Horse in Fleet-street. And Iohn King Map and Print Seller at the Globe in the Poultry near Stocks Market.
First published in 1705 ; translation by Moll in 1709. The publishers date it later in the 1730's(?).
The map shows the Roman Empire from the Fortunate Islands, to the Orcades Islands, to Morocco and Egypt, to India, the Caspian Sea and the borders of Russia.
Fall of the Roman Empire