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    "label": "To His Most Serene and August Majesty Peter Alexovitz absolute lord of Russia &c. this map of Moscovy, Poland, Little Tartary, and ye Black Sea &c. is most humbly dedicated",
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    "title": "To His Most Serene and August Majesty Peter Alexovitz absolute lord of Russia &c. this map of Moscovy, Poland, Little Tartary, and ye Black Sea &c. is most humbly dedicated",
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        "Russia--Maps--Early works to 1800",
        "Poland--Maps--Early works to 1800",
        "Black Sea--Maps--Early works to 1800",
        "Europe, Eastern--Maps--Early works to 1800",
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        "Relief shown pictorially. Depth shown by soundings.",
        "Prime meridians: London and Ferro.",
        "Insets: To avoid too great a contraction of the scale, the north part of Russia &c. is continued here -- The River Wolga from Peter Gorod to where it empties it self into the Caspian Sea -- Asoph or Asof and ye forts, and mouth of ye R. Don or Tanais &c.",
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