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Engraved map, 24.3 x 39.5 cms; 26.9 x 44.2 cms (sheet), relief indicated with hachures, original folds, numbered in ink "27" in top corner (faded), minor edge-toning otherwise in very good condition. An uncommon Arrowsmith map of Central Asia "From Du Halde, D'Anville, Islenieff &c. &c. but Imperfect and inaccurate authorities", published before the Great Game. The map extends from the Caspian Sea in the west, to Manchura in the east; and from "Kolhyvan" (Western Siberia) in the north to Tibet in the South. It charts a region then largely mysterious to Western cartographers and a frontier for geopolitical ambitions: a caption north of the Kailash range reads "Unknown parts of Greater Tibet".