Russia in Asia and Tartary (Tanner’s Universal Atlas, 1845 issue), with inset Western Part of Russia
Russia In Asia and Tartary. Engraved by J. & W.W. Warr. Published by Cary & Hart, Philadelphia. (above neat line) Tanner's Universal Atlas.
Henry Schenck Tanner; engraved by J. and W. W. Warr; published by Carey and Hart, Philadelphia
How we know
compilation Assembled from earlier sources. The author did not observe it directly.
Compilation from published surveys and travel reports; no observation by the mapmaker.
Research notes
- Same copperplate as Tanner 1836 (Rumsey images 0980065, 7858063) and Mitchell 1846-1855; LOC holds the 1844 Carey and Hart atlas (item map45000245). Derived from Arrowsmith and Pyadyshev-based European maps.
- Rumsey note: In full color by region. Engraved. Relief shown by hachures. Inset of Western Part of Russia.
Why it matters
American 1845 state of the 'Russia in Asia and Tartary' title: the word Tartary survives in the title while the map body colours Russian governments and the 'Chinese Empire'; the plate passed to Mitchell in 1846 and was reissued to the 1850s (see next records), which is why the same image appears across the 1840-1850 gap.
Places named
Russia in Asia (Siberia); Tartary (Kirghiz steppe, Khiva, Bukhara); Chinese Empire; Mongolia; Manchuria; Kamchatka
Who copied whom
- same plate (stated)Mitchell's 1846 issue of Tanner's 1836 plate
- Russia in Asia and Tartary M063, 1836same plate (stated)Mitchell's 1850 issue of Tanner's 1836 plate
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