Asia.- Tassin (Jean-Baptiste Athanase) Map of Eastern Asia, comprising China, parts of Tibet and Mongolia, Bootan, Assam, Burma and Eastern Bengal with Anam, Cambodia, Siam, Laos, the Malay Peninsula and the Indian archipelago, lithograph with fine hand-colouring, sheet 1050 x 735 mm (41 1/4 x 28 7/8 in), dissected and mounted on linen, minor surface dirt and browning, folding with green coloured endpapers, in green slipcase with publisher's printed label to upper cover, worn, 4to, Calcutta, 1840.

⁂ Scarce map, published in Calcutta. We cannot trace another example at auction. Tassin joined a voyage to East Asia as a naturalist, but his ship was wrecked in the Malay Archipelago, leaving Tassin impoverished in Singapore. He is recorded being in Calcutta by 1828, where he set up his own printing press, the Oriental Lithographic Press, which he ran until 1842 to great success.