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. |
| Description | 1 map ; 46 x 53 cm on sheet 54 x 62 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Library of Congress copy |
| Subjects |
| Parallel title | Carte de l'Asie |
| Cartographic data | Scale approximately 1:25,000,000. |
| Local note | Joyner Rare vault copy is hand colored. |
| General note | Relief shown pictorially. |
| General note | Prime meridian: Paris. |
| General note | Scale given in "Milliar. Germanic. quor. 15 in gr." and 5 others. |
| General note | "Seb. Dorn sculps." |
| General note | Shows 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 note | Title 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 forms | Available 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 |
| Language | Latin and French. |
| Genre/form | Early maps. |
| Genre/form | Early works. |
| Genre/form | Maps. |
| Genre/form | Early maps. |
| Genre/form | Maps. |
| LCCN | 2011585243 |