COVENS, J. / MORTIER, C. - Carte de la Turquie de L'Arabie et de la Perse.

This is the Amsterdam issue of De L'Isle's map of the Turkish Empire and Arabian Peninsula. It includes the Turkish Empire, the Mediterranean, Central Asia, and parts of Ukraine, Egypt, etc.

There are good details of towns and trade routes in modern-day Uzbekistan. The region here is labeled as "PAYS DES USBECS" (Land of the Usbecs). and "Tartarie Independante". The important cities of the Silk Road are mentioned Bochar (Bukhara), Samarcand (Samarkand), etc.
This map's scientific information was taken from Guillaume de l'Isle's maps. The lower left corner gives different scales.

The map was initially issued by De L'Isle but was copied and issued in Amsterdam by Pieter Mortier.

Pierre Mortier's grandparents left France in about 1625 to live in Leiden. His parents settled in Amsterdam in 1661 or 1662. Pierre Mortier grew up in Amsterdam but lived in Paris from 1681 to about 1685, when he must have entered the book trade. Once he was in Amsterdam again, he specialized in French books.

He established himself in atlases and introduced modern French maps by Sanson and Jaillot in a larger format than classical Dutch maps.