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Ost Siberien, Mongolei, Mandschurei (East Siberia, Mongolia, Manchuria), sheet of the Atlas von Asien in zwanzig Blaettern, c.1833 (1840 set)
Ost Siberien. Mongolei. Mandschire. (East Siberia. Mongolia. Manchuria).
J. L. Grimm and H. Mahlmann (Atlas von Asien to Carl Ritter's Erdkunde), Berlin
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
- Rumsey note: duplicate of previous map in the set; date estimated. Grimm's sheets rest on Klaproth's Asia polyglotta and Russian mapping.
- Rumsey note: Date estimated based on other dated maps in set. Duplicate of previous map.
Why it matters
The scholarly (Ritter school) map of the region c.1833-40: no Tartary, but Mongolei and Mandschurei as physical-ethnographic units, drawn from Klaproth, Jesuit surveys and Russian sources; the academic counterpart to the SDUK's 'Chinese Tartary'.
Places named
Eastern Siberia; Mongolia; Manchuria; Amur; Baikal; Chinese frontier
Who copied whom
Earlier in the chain
- this one was drawn from it (probable)Jesuit d'Anville base
- this one was drawn from it (probable)Klaproth
Keep exploring
The maps drawn just before and just after this one.
