Subject: Arabia
Period: 1769 (circa)
Publication: Nieuwe en Beknopte Hand Atlas
Color: Black & White
Size:
14 x 11.4 inches
35.6 x 29 cm
This handsome and detailed chart describes the Arabian Peninsula noting the roads and caravan routes. Also shows the eastern Mediterranean and the Holy Land, Persia, Iraq, and parts of Nubia in Africa. The course of the Nile River is well shown as is Cyprus. Two monument-style cartouches contain the title at upper right and three distance scales opposite. A small compass rose rests in the Arabian Sea.
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Condition: B+
Folding as issued with a toning on vertical fold, else very good. Good impression and original margins, very wide at right to accommodate binding trim.
