Meaning of Chinese Tartary | Babel Free

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Regions ruled by the Qing outside China proper.

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“The rein-deer, which in Scandinavia can scarcely exist to the south of the sixty-fifth parallel, descends, in consequence of the greater coldness of the climate, to the fiftieth degree, in Chinese Tartary, and often roves into a country of more southern latitude than any part of England.”

“For eccentric charm and historic patina few purchasable antiques rival early maps. Even if you cannot tell Mercator's projection from anyone else's, you can appreciate these oddly distorted but touchingly sincere portraits of the earth as viewed from another age. Once-imagined islands, extinct peoples and lost cities from the New World to Chinese Tartary reappear in vividly colored engravings, embellished with trumpeting cherubs and snorting sea monsters.”

“D’Anville’s overall map of China is claimed to be the most comprehensive to date, including both Tibet and Chinese Tartary (Manchuria and Mongolia), as well as territory as far west as the Caspian Sea.”

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