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Russia in Asia and Tartary, with Western Part of Russia (Mitchell’s New Universal Atlas, 1846)

Russia In Asia And Tartary. (with) Western Part Of Russia.

Samuel Augustus Mitchell (from the Tanner plate)

Map: Russia in Asia and Tartary, with Western Part of Russia, Mitchell, 1836
Picture: David Rumsey Map Collection (CC BY-NC-SA). See it at full size at the library

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
  • Not independent: same plate as Rumsey 5363064; Mitchell 1849 (0545068) and 1850 (4835080) and Cowperthwait 1853-55 issues follow.
  • Rumsey note: In full color by region.

Why it matters

1846 state of the Tanner plate under Mitchell's imprint; documents continuity of the 'Tartary' title into the late 1840s.

Places named

Russia in Asia; Tartary; Chinese Empire

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