ASIAN CONTINENT 1798 STRACKHOUSE UNUSUAL ANTIQUE ORIGINAL COPPER ENGRAVED MAP ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED MAP OF THE ASIAN CONTINENT 1798 Condition: --not specified Ended: Jul 08, 2023 22:13:32 PDT Winning bid: US $66.00 ASIAN CONTINENT 1798 STRACKHOUSE UNUSUAL ANTIQUE ORIGINAL COPPER ENGRAVED MAP Description Prsent Asia. Description: Striking and highly detailed fine unusual original 1798 Thomas Stackhouse's copper engraved map of the Asian Continentangraved by Samuel John Neele. The map notes cities, rivers, lakes and islamds. A decorative title cartouche and two mileage scales adorn the map. Date: 1798 ( undated ) Dimension: Paper size approx.: cm 39,4 x 41,4 Condition: Very strong and dark impression on good paper. Paper with chains. Map old original colored. Wide top and lower margins. Good lateral margins. Small foxing. Conditions are as you can see in the images. Mapmaker: Samuel John Neele (July 29, 1758 - May 13, 1824) was a prolific British map engraver active in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Neele apprenticed as a printer and engraver with Harry Ashby from about 1781 to 1782 before establishing himself independently in 1785 at 352 Strand, London. The combination of business acumen and technical skill make Neele extremely successful with literally hundreds of maps to his credit. His vast corpus is composed of notable maps by most major English publishers of the period including, Haywood, Faden, Wallis, Stockdale, Arrowsmith, Thomson, and Greenwood, among others. Neele's sons, James and Josiah Neele, also engravers, took over their fathers business around 1818, both becoming notable in their own right. Writer: Thomas Stackhouse (27 September 1756 – 29 January 1836) was an English antiquary and educational writer. He was born in Cockermouth in 1756, son of Daniel and Margaret Stackhouse; he was a grandson of the theologian Thomas Stackhouse. He was educated by his uncle, Thomas Stackhouse (1706–1784), an educational writer. He wrote several school textbooks, on punctuation, the Bible, astronomy and other subjects. A particular interest was investigating the remains of the early inhabitants of Britain. After walking "considerably above a hundred miles … among the barrows" near Weymouth and Dorchester in Dorset, he wrote Illustration of the Tumuli, or Ancient Barrows (1806), which was dedicated to William George Maton. He wrote Two Lectures on the Remains of Ancient Pagan Britain (1833), the result of visits to the earthworks and remains in the southern counties, ranging from Tunbridge Wells to Bath; 75 copies were printed for private distribution. He also published Views of Remarkable Druidical Rocks near Todmorton, presumably Todmorden in West Yorkshire. Stackhouse joined the Society of Friends, and his speech at the eleventh annual meeting of the Peace Society is reported in The Herald of Peace (vol. vi. 1827). He married Ruth Fell on 18 December 1783 in Liverpool, where he worked as a tutor, and they had three sons and two daughters: the two elder children born in Lancashire, and the three younger (born after 1787) in London. He died in Hackney on 29 January 1836, and was buried, with his wife, who had died in 1833, at Park Street burial ground, Stoke Newington. 7608