DEMEULE, M. - Asie.

Manuscript map made by miss Marie Demeule, dated Elbeuf 1879. Elbeuf is a town within the Upper Normandy region in France.
In the 19th century many students, and quite often young girls, produced manuscript atlases. These maps and atlases allowed them to show their drawing scales and are made at the end of their study. Decorated with a nice title cartouche in lower right showing a fasan.
The continet is filled with elegantly drawn regional names and the "Empire Chinois", is devided in Chine, Mongolie and Tibet.