1884 Arrowsmith Asia Map
Mongolia is still part of China here, and that single detail tells you how much of the continent has shifted since. Drawn by John Arrowsmith and published by Stanfords, this map shows Central Asia and the Middle East in arrangements no modern atlas records, while the Siberian north reads much as it would a century later.
Country boundaries carry bright outline colour against a pale ground, with light hachure marking the mountain ranges so the dense place names stay legible. River systems are a real pleasure: the Ob, Yenisei and Lena in the north, the Ganges and Irrawaddy to the south, the Yangtze in the east, many of their smaller tributaries named. Chinese ports opened to foreign commerce after the Second Opium War are underlined, and “Hong-kong I. & Victoria” is annotated Cy for colony. Coverage runs south to the Equator, so southern Indonesia falls outside the sheet. Latitude and longitude are ruled at 5 degree intervals.
Map Shop prints this reproduction from a high resolution scan of the Edward Stanford Cartographic Collection archive. Available finishes include:
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