Asien nach den neusten und besten Hülfsmitteln entworfen und herausgegeben im Jahre 1804.

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Original antique copper engraving, hand colored in outline and wash when published. A large and detailled map of Asia published 1804 in Germany by Adam Gottlieb Schneider. The map is detailled on place names, rivers, mountains, as well showing many regions with their original place names. In the title cartouche in the lower left corner with a table of color explanations for the English, French, Portugese, Spanish, Dutch and Danish possessions in 1804. Schneider, Adam Gottlieb (1745 - 1815), who was a German bookseller and map publisher, founded the publishing house "Schneider und Weigel" in 1780 through his marriage to Maria Johanna Stellwag (heiress to the Weigel art dealer), which continued to exist even after his death in 1815. Overall an excellent example of this large and interesting map, verso inscribed in ink,ASIEN'. Published in a German composit atlas.

Tooley's Dic. of Mapm. Rev. Ed. Q - Z, S. 124