This antique map of Asia was published by Alvin Jewett Johnson and Benjamin P. Ward for inclusion in Johnson's New Illustrated Family Atlas during the early 1860s. The map captures the continent during a period of intense geopolitical interest and colonial expansion, depicting vast territorial divisions across the Russian Empire, the Chinese Empire, Hindoostan (India), Arabia, Persia, and the East Indies. Rendered with vivid hand-tinted outline coloring in shades of pink, green, and yellow, the map details prominent geographic features, river systems, mountain ranges, and major trade settlements. The layout is enclosed within Johnson's distinctive fretwork and rosette border, featuring decorative corner stars characteristic of the publisher's work from 1862 to 1866.