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Asia: Stanfords Map of Asia in 1884 SMALL

Asia in 1884 on a cloth-backed reproduction (small size) of a map drawn by J. Arrowsmith and published by Edward Stanford. Country boundaries are outlined in bright colours while the pale background with subtle hachure to show the mountain ranges makes the numerous place names easy to read. Many smaller tributaries of the continent’™s great rivers are named, from the Ob, the Yenisei and the Lena in the north to the Ganges or the Irrawaddy in the south and the Yangtze in the east. Coverage extends to the Equator, so the southern part of Indonesia is not included.While the north of the continent looks as it was 100 years later except for the changes in the European part of Russia, Central Asia and the Middle East are much different from now, Mongolia is still part of China, etc. Names of Chinese ports open to foreign commerce after the Second Opium War are underlined; ‘œHong-kong I. & Victoria” are duly annotated with Cy for colony. Latitude and longitude lines are drawn at 5ยฐ intervals. Each individual cloth-backed map is sold folded in a colourful case covered with a unique design marbled paper ‘“ no two cases are identical.PLEASE NOTE: this title is also available as a wall map in two different sizes in the ‘œStanfords Classics Collection of Historical Maps”. To see the list of all the titles in this series from the Old Folding Maps please click on the series link.