Title: Photographic reduction of a Chinese map of the Upper Oxus region with autograph transcriptions by Julius Klaproth, to whom it belonged
- Image data
- 1872
- Not owned by MIT (Owned by Princeton)
Dates
- Coverage: 1872
Publishers
- London : published for the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, by J. Murray, Albemarle Street, 1872.
Summary
"Names of places in Chinese Characters omitted." Reproduction of inaccurate Chinese map from Klaproth's collection. The companion article focus on the erroneous geographic information of this map regarding to place name and location, and of previous sources taken from reports of apocryphal travels used when mapping this area. The source of the Upper Oxus River [Amu Darya] framed the boundary of Russia and the British dependencies in the East, making the correction to the geographical information was important for the future Anglo-Russian boundary agreement. Mountains, rivers, lakes, roads, and settlements are shown. Shows longitude west from Peking [Beijing]. Relief shown pictorially. From: Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London. Vol. 42 (1872), pp. 438-513; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J687 v.42 1872
Subjects
- Asia, Central
- Asia, Central—Historical geography—Maps
- Cartography—Asia
- Amu Darya—Maps
- Asia, Central—Maps
- Thematic maps
- Other
Geospatial coordinates
- Bounding Box: BBOX (59.0, 78.0, 40.0, 30.0)
- Geometry: BBOX (59.0, 78.0, 40.0, 30.0)
Provider
Princeton
Rights
- Access rights: Public
Citation
Yule, Henry, Sir, 1820-1889. Photographic reduction of a Chinese map of the Upper Oxus region with autograph transcriptions by Julius Klaproth, to whom it belonged. London : published for the Journal of the Royal Geographical Society, by J. Murray, Albemarle Street, 1872.. Image data. https://maps.princeton.edu/catalog/princeton-0c483m88k
Format
TIFF
Languages
- eng