Western Siberia, Independent Tartary, Khiva, Bokhara &c. (SDUK map dated 20 November 1838; 1844 Chapman and Hall volume)
Western Siberia, Independent Tartary, Khiva, Bokhara &c. J. & C. Walker sculpt. Published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, 59 Lincolns Inn Fields, Novr. 20th. 1838. (London: Chapman & Hall, 1844)
Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge; engraved by J. and C. Walker
How we know
compilation Assembled from earlier sources. The author did not observe it directly.
Compilation; the Rumsey note lists the stated sources: Klaproth, Burnes, Piadischev (Pyadyshev's Russian atlas) and others.
Research notes
- Derived from Klaproth (1836 Asie centrale), Burnes (W020) and Pyadyshev; not independent. The map bears a 1838 date but the Rumsey volume is the 1844 edition (both recorded).
- Rumsey note: Engraved map. Relief shown by hachures. Boundaries and lakes hand col. Two insets show continuations of map. Sources: Klaproth, Burnes, Piadischev and others.
Why it matters
Fills the 1838-1844 gap: the SDUK, the most widely used British educational atlas of the 1840s, still prints INDEPENDENT TARTARY across the Kazakh steppe and Transoxiana while naming the actual khanates (Khiva, Bokhara) and the Russian administrative line, an explicit case of the label surviving as a regional term after the polities it covers are named.
Places named
Western Siberia (Tobolsk, Omsk, Tomsk governments); Independent Tartary; Khiva; Bokhara; Aral and Caspian; Kirghiz steppe
Who copied whom
- this one was drawn from it (stated)Klaproth is parent of SDUK 1838
- this one was drawn from it (stated)Fremin 1829 is parent of SDUK 1838
- this one was drawn from it (stated)SDUK 1838 from Pyadyshev 1820s
- Siberia and Chinese Tartary M059, 1838same atlas (stated)Both SDUK sheets of 1838 in the 1844 volume
- Asia (SDUK, 1 January 1840 M060, 1840same atlas (stated)SDUK sheets in the 1844 volume
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