This is John Pinkerton's stunning 1818 map of Asia.   Covers from the Mediterranean to the Aleutian Islands and from the Arctic to the Equator.   This beautifully rendered map is truly a masterpiece of engraving, with mountain ranges, lakes, deserts, and rivers excited with such precision that the result appears almost three dimensional.   Pinkerton injections astounding detail throughout with countless towns, cities, geographical features, rivers, islands and bodies of water noted.  In desert regions fresh water sources are noted.  In the seas certain shoals and undersea are included.  In China and Manchuria the Great Wall appears.  Singapore islands is shown but not specifically named.  The Liakhov Islands, in northern Siberia, which some believed to be entirely composed of fossil mammoth ivory, are noted as Shore Discovered by Herders.    All in all, one of the most remarkable maps of Asia to appear in the 19th century.   Drawn by L. Herbert and engraved by Samuel Neele under the direction of John Pinkerton.   This map was issued in the scarce American edition of Pinkerton’s Modern Atlas, published by Thomas Dobson &amp; Co. of Philadelphia in 1818.
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1818 (undated)
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