| Summary: | 18th century Copper engraving handcolored with watercolor. Some full color and outline color. Relief shown pictorially. Printed in cartouche in lower left corner: "Imperii Russici et Tatariae Universae tam majoris et Asiaticae quam minoris et Europaeae Tabula ex recentissimis et probatissimis monumentis et relationibus concinata et ad legitimas projectionum Geographie. Regulas plane exacta opera Ioh Matthiae Hasii Math. P. P. juncta Sciagraphia explicationis ejusdeum et descriptionis Russiae et Tartariae universae Geographica - historicae. Impensis Homannianorum Heredum Norib. A. 1739. Cum Privil. S.C.M. nec non R. M. Pel. Et El Sax." Printed in cartouche in upper left corner is a dedication to Anna, Empress of Russia: "Annae Magnae, Victrici Russorum Imperatrici Septentrionis et Orientis Sideri begnigno, Hostium domitrici, Scientiarum Nutrici, Vitum longaevam, Famam aeternum, populum fidelem, Victoriam perpetuam, Fortuna obseqventissima p.m. precatus mappam hanc humillime consecrate Autor subjectissimus. Printed beneath border on left: "Notati etiam in hac mappa extant limites inter Russiam et Tartariam minorem post pacem recentissime Ao. 1739. initum." Printed within bottom border: "Longitudin Es Geographicae numerate a Primo Meridiano qvi a Parisiensi distat 20 vers us Occidentem." Printed beneath border in lower right: "R.A. Schneider S.C." Printed above northeast Russia in Arctic Ocean: "Noss. Tschalataschkoy it. Swetoi, h.e. Prom. Tschalatschense v. Santvm it. Scheleginskoy it. Tabin. Aut Glaciale." Printed above northeast Russia: "Iittora ex relationibus accolarum et conjecturis saltem cognita." Printed above northeast Russia: "Terminus lilitorum a Navarcho Beerings recognitae." Written in pencil in lower left corner beneath border: "Russia 1739." Shows several countries including: Russia, China, northern India, Japan, Korea, Poland, Hungary, eastern Germany, Denmark, Norway and other countries in northeast Europe. Also shows several regions including Tibet and Siberia. Displays several bodies of water including the Baltic Sea, Caspian Sea, the Arctic Ocean and the Sea of Korea as "Mare Orientale Minus." Surrounding the dedicatory cartouche to Anna, Empress of Russia, are female soldiers standing on dead male bodies on either side of a bust of Anna along with a large globe, other instruments and an angel blowing a trumpet. Surrounding the title cartouche are images of a deer's head, a hunters with a bow and arrow and a shotgun, a dog and large wolf. Prime Meridian: Paris. Scale: c.a. 1:17,000,000 [East 27 degrees - East 207 degrees / North 85 degrees - North 25 degrees]. Johann Matthias Hase (Hass) was a professor of mathematics at Wittenberg. He created maps for Homann Heirs. His works include: "Africa" (1737), "Guinea" (1743), "Grund Staedten" (1745), and "Atlas Historicus" (1750) (Tooley, 273). Source(s): Tooley, Ronald Vere. "Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers." Hertfordshire: Map Collector Publications Limited, 1979.
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