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Asia, newly engraved 1844 (Stieler’s Hand-Atlas, 1845 issue)

Asia : entw. gez. von F. v. Stülpnagel. Neu gestochen 1844.

Friedrich von Stuelpnagel (drawn); Adolf Stieler's Hand-Atlas, Justus Perthes, Gotha

Map: Asia, newly engraved 1844, Stieler, 1844 — 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

Compiled at Perthes from Russian, British and Humboldt/Ritter material.
Rumsey note: Map of Asia.

Why it matters

German 1844 continental sheet: uses Sibirien, Turan, Iran and Mongolei with no 'Tartarei' at all, showing that the Perthes school had abandoned the term a decade before the British popular atlases.

Places named

Asia; Sibirien; Turan; Iran; Mongolei; China; Hinter-Indien

Who copied whom

Later in the chain

Iran und Turan M067, 1843
same atlas (stated)
Both sheets of Stieler's Hand-Atlas, 1845 issue
Asien, 1849 M074, 1849
drawn from this one (probable)
Meyer from Stieler/Perthes

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