Details

Subject(s)

• Mongolia—Discovery and exploration—Maps [Browse]
• Physical geography—Mongolia—Maps [Browse]
• Surveying [Browse]
• Mongolia—Maps [Browse]
• China—Maps [Browse]
• Siberia (Russia)—Maps [Browse]

Lithographer

W. & A.K. Johnston Limited [Browse]

Publisher

John Murray (Firm) [Browse]

Related name

• Royal Geographical Society (Great Britain) [Browse]
• Elias, Ney, 1844-1897 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Physical maps [Browse]
• Maps [Browse]

Notes

• Relief shown by hachures and spot heights.
• Route of Mr. Elias, including dates and locations of encampments and extent of areas surveyed, is shown.
• Includes elevation profile of Mr. Elias's journey [scale ca. 1:5,910,000; vertical scale 1:120,000]. Major landmarks and locations of encampments are shown.
• Russian territory, Chinese territory, and dominions of Yakoob Beg shown by shading.
• "The positions which have been determined astronomically, are marked by the initial of the observer; (E.) Elias, (F.) Fritsche, (F.&B.) Fuss & Bunge, (L.) Lépissier, (M.) Matusovski, (S.) Schwarz."
• From: The Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London. Vol. 43 (1873), pp. 108-56; held in Firestone Library. Call number: G7 .J687 v. 43 1873

With

Issued to accompany article: Narrative of a journey through Western Mongolia, July 1872 to January 1873 / by Ney Elias, Jun., Medallist R.G.S. Read before the Royal Geographical Society, May 12, 1873.

Other format(s)

• Available also online through: Princeton University Libraries, Digital Map & Geographic Data Web site.
• Online version of companion article available also through the JSTOR Web site. Access limited to subscribing member institutions only.

In

Journal of the Royal Geographical Society of London Vol. 43 (1873), pp. 108-56. London : John Murray

OCLC

1340383211

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