This finely detailed late 18th-century copperplate map, engraved by Rigobert Bonne, depicts Persia (modern-day Iran), Georgia, and Independent Tartary, extending eastward into Tibet and northern India. Published during Bonne's tenure as Hydrographer Royal to the French Navy, the map provides an exceptionally accurate geographic representation of Central and Western Asia for its era.\n\nThe map clearly delineates major physical features including the Caspian Sea, Persian Gulf, Aral Sea, and major river systems like the Oxus (Amu Darya) and Indus. Regional subdivisions such as Khorasan, Usbeks, Bukharia, Belur, and 'Petit Tibet' are carefully labeled along with desert expanses ('Cobi ou Gd. Desert de Sable') and prominent urban settlements including Ispahan, Caboul, Kandahar, and Delhi. Above the upper border, chapter markers 'Liv. III, IV et V' and 'N° 18' indicate its original inclusion in a French historical atlas.