Detailed and very rare Russian-language India, Thailand, Southeast Asia, and Malaysia, published in Saint Petersburg in 1836.

The key along the bottom of the map notes possessions of the imperial powers, from left to right: England, France, Portugal, the Netherlands, and Denmark. These colors were originally drawn under the names of cities in India, but oxidative processes have since rendered the colors too dark to read.

Rarity

The map is very scarce. We have been unable to find any other examples in sales databases, libraries and archives, nor in general online searches.

The map comes from the 1836 edition of Всеобщий атлас или собрание карт всего земного шара, изданный для пользы юношества и сверенный с географиею Арсеньева и других Федором Позняковым. Второе издание, исправленное и дополненное 7 картами, выгравированными г. Фроловым. This translates as The universal atlas or collection of maps of the entire globe. Published for the benefit of youth and verified by the geography of Arsenyev and others by Fyodor Poznyakov. Second revised edition with additional 7 maps engraved by g. Frolov. That atlas was first published in 1829 (with an additional run printed in 1833), then for this second edition in 1836, and again in 1843 as the third edition. The second edition is in neither the RSL nor NLR.