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Title: Trans-Himalaya; discoveries and adventures in Tibet
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Hedin, Sven Anders, 1865-1952
Subjects: Tibet (China) -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : Macmillan and co., ltd.
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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ind on these mapstraces of any discoveries previous to yours. Before myreturn home Professor Mittag-Leffler, Director of themathematical school in the University of Stockholm, hadsent for photographs of these maps with a very detaileddescription, and he has kindly placed this material at mydisposal. This book is not the place in which to publishit, and, besides, the following statement which Dr. Dahlgrenhas obligingly drawn up at my request makes all furthercomment unnecessary : The Wall-Maps in the Sala dello Scudo, in the DogesPalace at Venice These maps, four in number, were constructed by the notedcartographer Giacomo Gastaldi in the middle of the sixteenthcentury, to take the place of older maps which were destroyed byfire in the year 1483 ; at least, it may be safely assumed that twoof them, those of East Asia and Africa, are the work of Gastaldi. The maps represent: 1. Asia from the mouth of the Indus eastwards to Chinaand Japan, as well as the Pacific Ocean and part ofAmerica.
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Lxxiii THE TRANS-HIMALAYA 407 2. Asia from Asia Minor to India (Kashmir). 3. Africa. 4. Italy, Only maps Nos. i and 2 have any interest for Sven Hedin.They correspond completely with the photographs procured byProfessor Mittag-Lefifler. All the maps were restored by Francisco Grisellini about themiddle of the eighteenth century. In map No. 2 great alterationsseem to have been made in geographical details as well as inthe text and in the decoration. As the map extends no farthereast than Kashmir it has, of course, no connection with SvenHedins discoveries. Map No. I, on the other hand, has in many essential respectspreserved its original character. We can undoubtedly form a goodnotion of its original appearance by comparing it with the maps inRamusios work Delle Navigazioni e Viaggi (2nd Edition, Venice,1554) and with Gastaldis Tercia Parte dell Asia (Venice, 1561).The resemblance to the former is very striking. In these maps,as in the wall-maps, the south is to the top. On all these m

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