Historical Maps of Asia

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	Main Author:		Münster, Sebastian (info)
	Title/Description:		Tavola della Oriental Regione dell Asia
	Publication Info:		[Basle: 1558]
	Date:		1558
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	Original Source:		Birmingham Public Library Cartography Collection

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	Main Author:		Linschoten, J.H. Van
	Title/Description:		[Arabia, Egypt, East Africa, Persia and India]
	Publication Info:		[Amsterdam: 1596]
	Date:		1596
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	Original Source:		Birmingham Public Library Cartography Collection

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	Main Author:		Ortelius, Abraham (info)
	Title/Description:		Tartariae sive Magni Chami Regni Typus
	Publication Info:		Antverpaie: [c. 1598]
	Date:		1598
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	Original Source:		W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library

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	Main Author:		Ruscelli, Girolamo
	Title/Description:		Tabula Asiae VIII
	Publication Info:		Venice: c.1599
	Date:		1599
	Scale:		1:28,500,000
	Original Source:		Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee

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	Main Author:		Münster, Sebastian (info)
	Title/Description:		Asia wie es jetziger zeit nach den furnemensten Herzschafften abgecheilet und beschriben ist.
	Publication Info:		[Basle: 1628]
	Date:		1628
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	Original Source:		Birmingham Public Library Cartography Collection

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	Main Author:		Mercator, Gerardus (info)
	Title/Description:		Asia ex magna orbis terre descriptione Gerardi Mercatoris desumpta, studio et industria G.M. Iunioris
	Publication Info:		Amsterdam: Gerardus Mercator Jr., 1628; map originally published in Gereardus Mercator's Atlas sive Cosmographicae meditiones de fabrica mundi et fabricatia figura
	Date:		1628
	Scale:		1:24,000,000
	Original Source:		W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library

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	Main Author:		Hondius, Hendrik (info)
	Title/Description:		Asia recens summa cura delineata / auct. Henr. Hondio
	Publication Info:		[Amsterdam : H. Hondius, 1631]
	Date:		1631
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	Original Source:		W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library

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	Main Author:		Merian, Matthaus
	Title/Description:		Tartaria sive Magnichami Imperiorum
	Publication Info:		Frankfurt: c.1650; after Abraham Ortelius
	Date:		1650
	Scale:		1:17,741,000
	Original Source:		Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee

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	Main Author:		Sanson, Nicholas (info)
	Title/Description:		Asia Vetus
	Publication Info:		Paris: 1667
	Date:		1667
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	Original Source:		Birmingham Public Library Cartography Collection

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	Main Author:		Du Val, Pierre (info)
	Title/Description:		Carte du Voyage de Mr L'Evesque de Beryte Vicaire Apostolique au Royaume de la Cochin-chine
	Publication Info:		Paris: Chez l'Auteur, [1677]
	Date:		1677
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	Original Source:		Birmingham Public Library Cartography Collection

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	Main Author:		Coronelli, Vencenzo Maria
	Title/Description:		Asia
	Publication Info:		Venice: [1690]
	Date:		1690
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	Original Source:		Birmingham Public Library Cartography Collection

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	Main Author:		Scherer, Heinrich
	Title/Description:		Totius Asiae
	Publication Info:		[Munich: 1703]; from Geographia Hierarchica.
	Date:		1703
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	Original Source:		Birmingham Public Library Cartography Collection

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	Main Author:		de Fer, N. (info)
	Title/Description:		Asie
	Publication Info:		Paris: 1705-1746; from Jacque Robbe's Methode Pour Apprendre Facilement Geographie
	Date:		1705
	Scale:		1:88,000,000
	Original Source:		Antique Atlas

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	Main Author:		Wells, Edward (info)
	Title/Description:		A New Map of Ancient Asia
	Publication Info:		[London: 1718]
	Date:		1718
	Scale:		1:27,750,000
	Original Source:		Birmingham Public Library Cartography Collection

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	Main Author:		Wells, Edward (info)
	Title/Description:		A New Map of Present Asia
	Publication Info:		[London: 1718]
	Date:		1718
	Scale:		1:27,750,000
	Original Source:		Birmingham Public Library Cartography Collection

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	Main Author:		Senex, John
	Title/Description:		A New Map of Asia: From the Latest Observations
	Publication Info:		London: D. Browne, 1721.
	Date:		1721
	Scale:		not indicated
	Original Source:		W. S. Hoole Special Collections Library

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	Main Author:		unknown
	Title/Description:		A Map of the Route between Mosco & Pekin Exhibiting the Road Travelled by the Ambassador Leoff Vassilich Ismayloff in the Years, 1719, 1720, & 1721
	Publication Info:		[London]: c.1725
	Date:		1725
	Scale:		1:12,025,000
	Original Source:		Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee

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	Main Author:		Homann, Johann Baptist (info)
	Title/Description:		Asiae, Recentisima Delineatio Qua Status et Imperia Totius Orientis
	Publication Info:		Nuremburg: [1730]
	Date:		1730
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	Original Source:		Birmingham Public Library Cartography Collection

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	Main Author:		L'Isle, Guillaume de (info)
	Title/Description:		Magnae Tartariae Tabula
	Publication Info:		Amsterdam: I Covens and C. Mortier, 1730
	Date:		1730
	Scale:		1:9,742,000
	Original Source:		Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee

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	Main Author:		Bowen, Emanuel (info)
	Title/Description:		A New and Accurate Map of the Whole Russian Empire as contain'd both in Europe and Asia
	Publication Info:		London: 1735
	Date:		1735
	Scale:		1:13,939,200
	Original Source:		Antique Atlas

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	Main Author:		Haas, Johann Matthias
	Title/Description:		Tartariae Maioris Sive Asiaticae Tabula
	Publication Info:		Nuremberg: Homann Heirs, 1739
	Date:		1739
	Scale:		1:16,190,000
	Original Source:		Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee

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	Main Author:		Himann, Heirs
	Title/Description:		Imperii Russici et Tartariae Universae
	Publication Info:		Nuremberg: 1739
	Date:		1739
	Scale:		1:15,840,000
	Original Source:		Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee

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	Main Author:		Desbruslins, F. Pere
	Title/Description:		L'Asie
	Publication Info:		Paris: Buffier, 1744; after Chalevoix
	Date:		1744
	Scale:		1:81,400,000
	Original Source:		Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee

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	Main Author:		Seutter, Matthaeus (info)
	Title/Description:		Asia cum omnibus Inperiis Provinciis...
	Publication Info:		Ausburg: c. 1745; from Atlas Novius Sive Tabulae Geographicae Togius Odbis Faciem, Partes Imperia Regna et Provincias Exhibentes...
	Date:		1745
	Scale:		1:19,500,000
	Original Source:		Antique Atlas

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	Main Author:		Bowen, Emanuel (info)
	Title/Description:		A New & Accurate of the Whole Russian Empire as contain'd both in Europe and Asia
	Publication Info:		London: 1747; drawn from authentic journals, surveys, and most approved modern maps and regulated by astronomical observations
	Date:		1747
	Scale:		1:16,225,000
	Original Source:		Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee

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	Main Author:		Bowen, Emanuel (info)
	Title/Description:		An Exact Chart of all the Countries through which Capt. Behring Travelled from Tobolsk, Capital, of Siberia, to the Country of Kamtschatka
	Publication Info:		London: John Harris, 1748
	Date:		1748
	Scale:		1:17,800,000
	Original Source:		Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee

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	Main Author:		Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (info) and Johann Tobias Mayer
	Title/Description:		Carte Generale de la Tartarie Chinoise, Tatariae Sinensis Mappa Geographica
	Publication Info:		Nuremburg: Homand Heirs, 1749
	Date:		1749
	Scale:		1:4,807,000
	Original Source:		Courtesy of Murray Hudson, Halls, Tennessee

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