Asia : secundum legitimas projectionis sterographicae regulas et juxta recentissimas observation et relationes explosis aliorum fabulosis designationibus et narrationibus adhibitis quoque veterum monumentis et recentiorum itinerariis descripta et in partes suas methodicas IX divisa / a I. Matth. Hasio M.P.P.O. nunc ex beate defuncti subsidiis et M.S.C. tis designata a M. August Gottlob Boehmio = Carte de l'Asie : projettée stereographiquement tirée des relations et observations contenues dans les voyages modernes de meme que dans le monumens des anciens corrigée de tout ce qui sent la fable et divisée en ses IX parties methodiques / par le Sr. I.M. Hasius prof. des math. recueilliée et dessinee sur ses morceaux posthumes par Aug. Gottl. Boehmius, maitre es arts.

Author/creator Boehme, August Gottlieb cartographer.
Other author Hase, Johann Matthias, 1684-1742, cartographer.
Other author Dorn, S. (Sebastian), -approximately 1778, engraver.
Format Map
Publication[Nuremberg] : Impensis Homannianorum Hered, a. 1744.
Description1 map ; 46 x 53 cm on sheet 54 x 62 cm
Supplemental ContentLibrary of Congress copy
Subjects

Parallel title Carte de l'Asie
Cartographic dataScale approximately 1:25,000,000.
Local noteJoyner Rare vault copy is hand colored.
General noteRelief shown pictorially.
General notePrime meridian: Paris.
General noteScale given in "Milliar. Germanic. quor. 15 in gr." and 5 others.
General note"Seb. Dorn sculps."
General noteShows Kamchatka reduced to its proper size from Johann Christoph Homann's earlier map, while Siberia is clearly based on Russian surveys of the 1730's. Japan is shown with Hokkaido still attached to the mainland, and Novaya Zemlya is represented as a peninsula.--Cf. Davison.
General noteTitle cartouche illustrated with a seated female courtesan with a smoking incense burner on her lap; to the right an Amazon plucks an arrow from her quiver.
Digital Bookplate Bookplate for Jack and Mary Spain
References Davison, J. Mapping the continent of Asia, 129
Other formsAvailable also through the Library of Congress Web site as a raster image.
Acquisitions source Joyner Rare vault copy gift of Jack and Mary Spain, 6/19/2024
LanguageLatin and French.
Genre/formEarly maps.
Genre/formEarly works.
Genre/formMaps.
Genre/formEarly maps.
Genre/formMaps.
LCCN 2011585243