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Tehran, Sahab Geographic and Drafting Institute, 1961. Second edition, sheet size 48.5 x 68 cm, printed in colours, text in Persian and English, blank verso, folding into publisher’s colour printed paper wrappers; price stamped on front cover, tape mark to back cover. A legend in the borders lists 218 places of interest in pre-Revolutionary Tehran; Sahab’s own premises are… Read more about this item

Antwerp, Martin Nuyts, c. 1632. Two copper engraved map-sheets, joined, probably engraved by Cornelis Galle, black and white, blank verso. Map of the Holy Land after Christian van Adrichom, oriented with east at the top of the page, with oval plan of ancient Jersualem (which follows Villalpando) at the foot and vignettes of Biblical subjects in the borders. Published… Read more about this item

Paris, Kaeppelin &: Cie, 1854. Lithographed folding map, 61 x 86.5 cm, original hand colour in outline, dissected into 21 panels and laid on linen, folding into contemporary cloth covers, slightly sunned, with a printed paper label in English: ‘Seat of War, Map of the Ottoman Empire in Europe and Asia’. No importer or reseller’s name is given, but… Read more about this item

Paris, chez Cré: py, 1767. Copper engraving, 21.5 x 28 cm, inset of Algeria  (in continuation of the map west), original hand colour, very light ofsetting of the red in lower part of the map, blank verso. First published in 1748, this edition of Le Rouge’s map was reissued under the imprint of Jean Baptiste Crépy (fl. 1753-1790), scion… Read more about this item

Padua, c. 1790. Copper engraving, 25 x 36 cm, engraved by Pietro Scattaglia, black and white, toning to centrefold, blank verso. Published in an Italian edition of Bonne’s ‘Atlas Encyclopédique contenant la géographie ancienne, la géographie moderne et les cartes relatives à la géographie physique’, an atlas co-authored with Nicolas Desmarest, which accompanied the Padua edition of Diderot’s… Read more about this item

London, 1929. Folding lithographed map, sheet size 54 x 65.5 cm, printed in colours, blank verso, small stain by the ‘s’ of ‘Trans Caspia’, a couple of short splits along the folds, folding into yellow stiff card wrappers; part of the Authentic Imperial Maps series published by the London Geographical Institute, with publisher’s advertisements to pastedown. Map

Augsburg, Jacob Koppmayer, c. 1685. Copper engraving, 16 x 23 cm, black and white, blank verso; in the margin to the left of the map is an incomplete list of sultans of the Ottoman Empire. Published in Wagner’s ‘Delineatio Provinciarum Pannoniae et imperii Turcici in oriente. Eine Grundrichtige Beschreibung deß ganzen Aufgangs, sonderlich aber deß Hochlöblichen Königreichs Ungarn und… Read more about this item

Nuremberg, 1720. Copper engraving, 31.5 x 41.5 cms, original hand colour, blank verso; the southern regions of ancient Greece, published in Johann David Köhler’s historical atlas "Descriptio Orbis Antiqui..." The cartouche is adorned with suitably classical subjects, such as chariot racing and the Colossus of Rhodes. Zacharakis, Printed Maps of Greece, 3668/2370. Map

Dordrecht and Amsterdam, 1702. Copper engraving, 35.5 x 46.5 cm, black and white, light waterstaining in upper margin, Dutch text on the verso. Oriented to the west, the map was engraved by the Visscher family in the mid 17th century and illustrated a series of Dutch Bibles. The setting of the text on the verso corresponds with that given… Read more about this item

Paris, c. 1768. Copper engraving, 49.5 x 62.5 cm, inset ‘Carte de la Terre de Canaan’, original hand colour, blank verso. Second state of Robert de Vaugondy’s Old Testament map of the Holy Land. The map is still dated 1750, but the peninsula of Seboim has been added in the Dead Sea. Pedley, Bel et Utile: the Work of… Read more about this item

London, H.G. Collins, c. 1854. Lithographed folding map, sheet size 55.5 x 74 cm, map 48 x 65 cm, original hand colour, some wormholes, mostly to left hand margin, blank verso, folding into original printed paper wrappers. Contemporary with the Crimean War, probably published during the early stages of the conflict before the focus shifted specifically to the Crimea… Read more about this item

Antwerp, Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601. Copper engraving, 7.5 x 11 cms, black and white, Latin text on verso. Sicily, from the second series of maps engraved by Philip Galle for the Epitome, the pocket atlas version of Ortelius’ Theatrum. Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici, Ort 58 Map

Antwerp, Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601. Copper engraving, 8.3 x 12.4 cms, black and white, Latin text on verso. The Kingdom of Naples, from the second series of maps engraved by Philip Galle for the Epitome, the pocket atlas version of Ortelius’ Theatrum. Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici, Ort 58 Map

Paris, 1920. French naval chart, 63 x 91.5 cms, black and white with beacons highlighted in yellow, insets of Port d’Abri (the inner harbour at modern day Izmir) and two coastal profiles, slightly dusty lower margin, one or two closed marginal tears, blank verso. Engraved in 1866 after British charts by Copeland and Spratt, this example of the map… Read more about this item

Antwerp, Plantin-Moretus, 1595. Copper engraving, 32 x 49 cms, three maps on one sheet: Anatolia or modern Turkey, Egypt, Tunis and ancient Carthage; modern hand colour, conjugate wormhole at centrefold, Latin text on verso. An engraved historical note on the map of Carthage indicates that nearby Tunis, which is the focus of the map, was captured for Christendom by… Read more about this item

Amsterdam, c. 1700. Copper engraving, 43.5 x 52 cms, original hand colour, trivial waterstaining to the outer margins, not approaching the printed area; blank verso. Petrus Schenk and Gerard Valk often worked in partnership, towards the end of the Dutch Golden Age, when the United Provinces still led Europe in the field of map-making. Together they purchased the surviving… Read more about this item

Berlin, 1909. Imperial German Naval Office chart, 67 x 91 cms, engraved by F. Müllhaupt, black and white, centrefold, date-stamped 24 December 1909, blank verso; breakwaters and lights highlighted in colour; shows sands, soundings etc, with interior detail of relief, vegetation, roads and settlements; inset profiles, and plan of the port of Aden. Map

Copenhagen, c. 1772. Copper engraving, 59 x 39.5 cms, engraved by Defehrt after Martin, modern hand-colour, blank verso; engraved in Copenhagen in 1771, our example is from one of the original Copenhagen editions of Niebuhr’s account of his travels published in 1772-1773, rather the Amsterdam editions of 1774 onwards. Niebuhr was the sole survivor of the Royal Danish Arabia… Read more about this item

London, 1924. Engraved chart, 112 x 68 cms, engraved by John and Charles Walker, black and white (key information highlighted in pink wash), vertical and horizontal folds, some light marginal soiling and one or two short nicks and tears. First published in 1860 with corrections to 1924, covering the coast from Palimurus Shoal in Yemen to the Khorya Morya… Read more about this item

Paris, 1745. Copper engraving, 23 x 26 cms, black and white map of the Arabian peninsula, blank verso. Jacques Nicolas Bellin the elder (1703-1772) was first chief hydrographic engineer of the "Dépôt des cartes, plans et journaux du Ministère de la Marine," charged by Louis XV with mapping the coasts of France first and then the rest of the… Read more about this item