Antique Map of Asia with a largely unexplored extreme Northwest of Asia

Antique map titled 'Carte d'Asie'. This is a fine circa 1800 map of Asia by Alexandre Blondeau. It covers the entire continent from Africa and the Mediterranean east to the Bering Sea and south as far as Java and New Guinea. This map is most interesting in its rendering of the largely unexplored extreme northwest of Asia. Knowledge of this area was, at the time, speculative at best. Shows a misshapen representation of Japan, Hokkaido, Sakhalin Island, Kamchatka and Korea.

Condition: Good. General age-related toning. Minor wear and soiling. Please study image carefully.

Date: c.1800

Overall size: 36 x 24 cm.