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RUSSIAN MAPS. SHEVELEV, A. P., GENERAL STAFF LIEUTENANT COLONEL. Karta Evropeiskoi Rossii i Sibirii na 4 listakh [Map of European Russia and Siberia]. St. Petersburg: 1871. Hand-colored lithographed map, backed on cloth, and folding, 1040 x 1345 mm. Contemporary cloth portfolio, some minor soiling. A fine large map showing Eastern Europe from Stockholm to Constantinople, with Russia eastward from Perm and south to the Caucasus and Iran. The inset map shows Asiatic Russia with Turkestan. WITH: Plan Petergofa i Aleksandrii. 1867. Chromolithographic map of the royal palace of Alexandria at Peterhof, residence of the Tsars 1837-1917. Backed on cloth and folding. AND WITH: MEVIUS, APOLLON FEDOROVICH. 1820-1898.Gornopromyshlennaya karta donetskago basseina sost. Kharkov: 1894. 1120 × 580 mm. Chromolithographic mining map of the Donetsk Basin company. Backed on cloth and folding. A. Mevius was a prominent mining engineer and a founder of metallurgy in the Ukraine. From 1887, he taught at the new Kharkov Institute of Technology where he founded its metallurgy department and became its first professor.