Print of hand colored steel engraving titled Asie Ancienne“.

Author Victor Lavasseur.

Engraved by unknown.

From Atlas classique universel de Geographie anciene et moderne“ by Victor Levasseur. Paris. 1830.

Victor Levasseur (1800–1870) was a French cartographer widely known for his distinctive decorative style. He produced numerous maps more admired for the artistic content of the scenes and data surrounding the map than for the detail of the map.

Asia is the Earth\'s largest and most populous continent, located primarily in the eastern and northern hemispheres. Though it covers only 8.7% of the Earth\'s total surface area, it comprises 30% of Earth\'s land area, and has historically been home to the bulk of the planet\'s human population (currently roughly 60%). Asia is notable for not only overall large size and population, but unusually dense and large settlements as well as vast barely populated regions within the continent of 4.4 billion people. Asia has exhibited economic dynamism (particularly East Asia) as well as robust population growth during the 20th century, but overall population growth has since fallen to world average levels.

Approx. image size 12, 1 x 8, 6/13, 9 x 10, 2 cm.Condition: good.

Condition: good.