Historic Map : Vaugondy Map of Eastern Russia, Siberia (Russian Empire), 1750, Vintage Wall Art City Maps Plans and Views New York of Brooklyn Queens Long Island Rare first edition of Mitchell Jr.'s important New York City map. 5247786 Superintendent of the Survey of Hamburg Superintendent of the Survey of the Coast of the United States from 1843 to 1865 greatly exaggerated the wealth of Louisiana by describing a rich mining region easily accessible along the Mississippi from New Orleans the map notes the vast stretch of land known for most of the 18th century as Tartary this little known and largely inaccessible region held a special fascination for western Europeans who were reared on legends of the dreaded Mongols or Tartars and their leader