Middle East - Holy Land Maps

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• The Turkish Empire. Newly Augmented by John Speed.

  The first English map to offer a detailed view of the Ottoman Empire.

  Cartographer(s): John Speed

  Place/Date: London / 1676

  $2,700 Add to cart
• World Oil’s 1958 Middle East Oil Map

  World Oil’s iconic map of the Middle Eastern Petroleum Concessions and Infrastructure.

  Cartographer(s): World Oil

  Place/Date: Houston / 1958

  $2,800 Add to cart
• Contro La Repressione e L’Imperialismo del Comunismo Sovietico.

  Italian Anti-Communist Poster protesting the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the arrest of peace activist and nuclear physicist, Andrey Sakharov.

  Cartographer(s): Democrazia Cristiana

  Place/Date: Villa San Lucia, Frosinone / 1980

  $750 Add to cart
• Piping Petroleum In Iraq

  A decorative broadsheet explaining and promoting the early petroleum industry in Iraq, on the eve of a new World War.

  Cartographer(s): Anonymous

  Place/Date: Not listed / 1939

  $775 Add to cart
• Prima Asiae Tabula.

  The first printed map of Turkey.

  Cartographer(s): Claudius Ptolemy

  Place/Date: Rome / ca. 1478

  $14,500 Add to cart
• Costantinopoli città principale del gran turcho

  Lafreri-school 1568 Zenoi reverse-image bird’s-eye-view of Istanbul.

  Cartographer(s): Domenico Zenoi, Donato Bertelli

  Place/Date: Venice / 1568

  $1,700 Add to cart
• Hayastan: hamaynagitakan Hayastan (Armenia: Encyclopedic Armenia)

  A cartographic celebration of Armenia and Armenian culture.

  Cartographer(s): Hovhannes K. Babessian, Imp. Dufrénoy

  Place/Date: Paris / 1933

  $2,600 Add to cart
• Palestine. Land of Dispute.

  1947 British broadside featuring three maps of Palestine on the eve of partition.

  Cartographer(s): Bureau of Current Affairs

  Place/Date: London / September, 1947

  $900 Add to cart
• So you’re going to Jerusalem!

  U.S. Army map of the Middle East and Jerusalem meant for soldiers heading from the Persian Gulf Command in Baghdad to Palestine.

  Cartographer(s): Yank, the Army Weekly

  Place/Date: Not listed / ca. 1945

  $475 Add to cart
• Plan De Jerusalem Ancienne & Moderne

  Plan of the Old City of Jerusalem by the Ottoman city’s official architect and engineer.

  Cartographer(s): Ermete Pierotti

  Place/Date: Paris / 1860

  $1,400 Add to cart
• [With Extensive Contemporary Annotations] Ordnance Survey of the Peninsula of Sinai Made in 1868-9 By Captains C.W. Wilson, and H.S. Palmer, R.E. Under The Direction of Major-General Sir Henry James, R.E. F.R.S. &c. Director of the Ordnance Survey

  The difficult merger between religious belief and scientific thought: an annotated map of the Sinai from the height of the British Empire.

  Cartographer(s): Captain Charles William Wilson, Captain H.S. Palmer

  Place/Date: London / 1869

  $3,500 Add to cart
• Bacon’s Bird’s-Eye View of the Holy Land

  George Washington Bacon’s iconic bird’s-eye-view of the Holy Land.

  Cartographer(s): George Washington Bacon

  Place/Date: London / 1890

  $2,600 Add to cart
• Wandkarte der Teppichgebiete

  A remarkable visualization of well-known carpet regions in the Middle East and Central Asia, produced at the height of the ‘Persian rug craze’.

  Cartographer(s): Verlag der "Teppich-Börse"

  Place/Date: Vienna / ca. 1931

  $1,350 Add to cart
• Erythraei Sive Rubri Maris Periplus, olim ab Arriano descriptus, nunc vero ab Abrah. Orelio ex eodem delineatus

  Illustrating a mysterious ancient text: fascinating Ortelius map mixing classical mythology and contemporary exploration.

  Cartographer(s): Abraham Ortelius

  Place/Date: Antwerp / 1624

  $1,200 Add to cart
• Occidentalior Tractus Indiarum Orientalium à Promontorio Bonae Spei ad C. Comorin

  Stunning Renard sea chart of the Indian Ocean, with East Africa, Arabia, and southern India, from the Atlas de la Navigation.

  Cartographer(s): Louis Renard

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / 1715

  $1,400 Add to cart
• Empire de la porte Ottomane en Europe, en Asie, et en Afrique avec les pays qui lui sont tributaires, dressé par les freres Lotter

  Late 18th century map of the Ottoman Empire with large, striking cartouche.

  Cartographer(s): The Lotter Family

  Place/Date: Augsburg / ca. 1790

  $675 Add to cart
• Terrae Yemen maxima Pars seu Imperii Imami, Principatus Kaukebân nec non ditionum Haschid u Bekil, Nehhm, Chaulan, Aleu Arisch et Aden Tabula

  Original Copenhagen edition of Niebuhr’s map of Yemen, from the first scientific mission to Arabia.

  Cartographer(s): Carsten Niebuhr

  Place/Date: Copenhagen / 1771

  $900 Add to cart
• Map of Western Palestine from surveys conducted for The Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. By Lieuts. C. R. Conder and H. H. Kitchener, R. E. Reduced from the one inch map in twenty six sheets. Special Edition Illustrating The New Testament also The Talmud and Josephus (after the birth of Jesus)…

  Special edition 1882 New Testament-themed map of Western Palestine.

  Cartographer(s): Claude R. Conder & Horatio Kitchener

  Place/Date: London / 1882

  $1,000 Add to cart
• Constantinopoli

  Incredible c. 1570 Duchetti Lafreri-school view of Constantinople.

  Cartographer(s):

  Place/Date: Rome / ca. 1570

  $4,800 Add to cart
• João Teixeira Cosmographo. De sua, Magestade. Aféz em Lixboa o Anno de 1649

  Rare 17th century portolan-style chart designed for use aboard Portuguese merchant vessels.

  Cartographer(s): Joao Teixeira Albernaz I (the Elder), Melchisedec Thevenot

  Place/Date: Paris / ca. 1672

  $6,000 Add to cart
• Tabula Asiae VI. [Arabia Felix]

  Rare old color Münster Ptolemaic woodcut map of Arabia.

  Cartographer(s): Sebastian Münster

  Place/Date: Basel / ca. 1540

  $1,200 Add to cart
• Secundae Partis Asiae

  De Jode’s extraordinary map of Arabia — among the finest maps of the region on the market.

  Cartographer(s): Gerard & Cornelis de Jode

  Place/Date: Antwerp / 1593

  $7,800 Add to cart
• Carte des Trois Arabies. Tiree en Partie de l’Arabe de Nubie, en Partie de Divers autres Autheurs…

  A particularly beautiful example of Sanson’s influential map of the “3 Arabias.”

  Cartographer(s): Nicolas Sanson

  Place/Date: Paris / 1654

  $1,200 Add to cart
• Arabia Felice Nuova Tavola

  1598 map of Arabia in full color.

  Cartographer(s): Girolamo Ruscelli

  Place/Date: Venice / 1598

  $700 Add to cart
• Tabula VI Asiae [Arabia]

  Beautiful 1535 Ptolemaic woodcut map of Arabia.

  Cartographer(s): Laurent Fries

  Place/Date: Lyon / 1535

  $1,200 Add to cart
• Byzantium nunc Constantinopolis

  Gorgeous original color 1582 bird’s-eye-view of Istanbul.

  Cartographer(s): Georg Braun & Franz Hogenberg

  Place/Date: Cologne / 1582

  $3,600 Add to cart

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• Vestiges of Assyria. Sheet 3rd being a map of the country included in the angle formed by the River Tigris & The Upper Zab showing the disposition of the various ancient sites in the vicinity of Nineveh

  Felix Jones’ third map in the Vestiges of Assyria series, in which the densely inhabited flood plain surrounding the capitals of Nineveh and Nimrud has been depicted.

  Cartographer(s): Felix Jones, John Walker

  Place/Date: London / 1855

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• Vestiges of Assyria. Sheet lst an Ichnographic Sketch of the remains of ancient Nineveh with the enceinte of the modern Mosul.

  Felix Jones’s map of Nineveh: the first modern cartographic visualization of Assyria’s great capital.

  Cartographer(s): Felix Jones, John Walker

  Place/Date: London / 1855

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• Masjid Haram / Great Mosque of Mecca

  A highly decorative and deeply symbolic plan of the Holy Precinct in Mecca following a late 19th-century renovation.

  Cartographer(s): Fahmy/Sultani Order

  Place/Date: Mecca / [early 20th c.?] 1893

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• A New & Accurate Map of Turky in Asia, Arabia &c…

  Emanuel Bowen’s decorative 18th-century folio-map of the Ottoman Empire and the greater Middle East.

  Cartographer(s): Emanuel Bowen

  Place/Date: London / 1747

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• Israel and the Arab states – Area and population

  Six Day War persuasive cartography: a demographic map of Israel and the Arab states in 1969.

  Cartographer(s): Merkaz ha-hasbara

  Place/Date: Jerusalem / 1969

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• Deliniantur in hac Tabula, Orae Maritimae Abexiae, Freti Mecani; al Maris Rubri; Arabiae, Ormi, Persiae, Supra Sindam usq, Fluminis Indi, Cambriae India & Malabaris, Insulae, Ceylon

  Linschoten’s iconic 1596 navigational chart of the Indian Ocean in spectacular full color.

  Cartographer(s): Jan Huygen van Linschoten

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / 1596

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• [Suez Crisis Sinai Peninsula Map]

  1956 Israeli battlefield map of the Sinai Peninsula Campaign from the Second Arab-Israeli War (Suez Crisis).

  Cartographer(s): Anonymous

  Place/Date: Not listed / 1956

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• Geologic Map of the Arabian Peninsula

  The first complete geological profile of Saudi Arabia and her neighbors; the result of a collaboration between ARAMCO and the U.S. Geological Survey.

  Cartographer(s): Arabian American Oil Company, U.S. Geological Survey

  Place/Date: Washington, D.C. / 1963

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• Tripoli

  1918 British Survey Map of Tripoli (Lebanon) and Surroundings.

  Cartographer(s): Survey of Egypt

  Place/Date: Cairo / Oct. 1918

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• Homs

  1918 British Survey Map of Homs and the Orontes.

  Cartographer(s): Survey of Egypt

  Place/Date: Cairo / Oct. 1918

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• Central Map of Tehran

  An absolutely marvelous lithograph of Tehran, produced during the tumultuous late 1950s.

  Cartographer(s): The Sahab Geographic and Drafting Institute

  Place/Date: Tehran / 1961

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• [Pair of Panoramas] DAMAS No.1. & DAMAS No.2.

  Two unrecorded panoramic photographs of Damascus under the French Mandate.

  Cartographer(s): Anonymous

  Place/Date: Not listed / ca. 1925

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• Amman in Panorama

  A graphic vista of Amman as a modern Arab Metropolis, published less than a decade after Jordanian Independence.

  Cartographer(s): George Aleeff, Istaklal Publishing House

  Place/Date: Beirut / 1953

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• Damascus, urbs noblissima ad Libanum montem, Totius Sÿriae Metropolis

  An excellent example of Braun and Hogenberg’s 1575 bird’s-eye-view of Damascus in original black and white.

  Cartographer(s): Georg Braun & Franz Hogenberg

  Place/Date: Cologne / ca. 1575

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• Second Year of the State of Israel. . שנת שתיים למדינת ישראל

  The ultimate early Israel commemorative map, celebrating its second anniversary with Social Realist imagery.

  Cartographer(s): Joseph Szapiro & Michael Karra

  Place/Date: Tel Aviv / 1949

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• Plan of Ancient Troy

  When artifact becomes cartifact — locally-published and detailed archaeological plan of Ancient Troy.

  Cartographer(s): AYLA

  Place/Date: Çanakkale / 1964

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• Expedition Citroen Centre-Asie 3eme Mission G.-M. Haardt – L. Audouin-Dubreuil

  A remarkable collection of materials related to the first automobile crossing of Asia: the famous Citroën Central Asia Expedition of 1931-32, from Beruit to Peking.

  Cartographer(s): Georges-Marie Haardt, Louis Audouin-Dubreuil

  Place/Date: Paris / 1933

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• [Title in Russian] Iraq

  Cold War era Soviet map of Ba’athist Iraq.

  Cartographer(s): General Directorate of Geodesy and Cartography (USSR)

  Place/Date: Moscow / 1966

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• [Title in Russian] Syria

  Cold War era Soviet map of Syria.

  Cartographer(s): General Directorate of Geodesy and Cartography (USSR)

  Place/Date: Moscow / 1977

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• Ierusalem, et suburbia eius, sicut tempore Christi floruit…

  Illustrating the last days of Jesus in Jerusalem: a magnificent 1588 plan of the city in the Second Temple Period.

  Cartographer(s): Georg Braun & Franz Hogenberg

  Place/Date: Cologne / 1588

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• Routes between ‘Oqair and Jabrin Oasis in Eastern Nejd from surveys by Major R.E. Cheesman O.B.E. 1923-24

  A pioneering expedition for the mapping of the Arabian coast from the Gulf of Salwah to Uqair.

  Cartographer(s): Robert Ernest Cheesman

  Place/Date: London / 1925

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• Arabien

  Excellent scientific mid-19th century map of Arabia with an inset of the area that would become Riyadh.

  Cartographer(s): Carl Ferdinand Weiland, Geographisches Institut Weimar

  Place/Date: Weimar / 1841

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• Carte Généralle de l’Empire du Turc

  Mid-17th century map of the Ottoman Empire with various Arabian cartographic myths.

  Cartographer(s): Pierre Mariette

  Place/Date: Paris / 1646

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• Map of Arabia illustrative of W.G. Palgrave’s Journey in 1862-63

  19th century map of the Arabian Peninsula with important contemporary political divisions.

  Cartographer(s): Macmillan & Co.

  Place/Date: London / 1865

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• Sana’a: Nortech Surveys (Yemen)

  A large, separately-issued map of Sanaʽa, capital of the newly reunited Republic of Yemen.

  Cartographer(s): The Survey Authority

  Place/Date: Sana'a / 1992

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• The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

  Excellent map of the Arabian Peninsula with prominent Trans-Arabian Pipeline and desert watering points.

  Cartographer(s): Arabian American Oil Company

  Place/Date: Dhahran, Saudi Arabia / ca. 1973

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• [Map of Mesopotamia, for instruction in military and Ottoman geography]

  Mapping the Berlin-Baghdad Railway: official Ottoman government map of Mesopotamia.

  Cartographer(s): War Academy Press

  Place/Date: Baghdad (?) / 1910

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• [Old Damascus]

  Unrecorded large-scale cyanotype archaeological plan of Old Damascus during the Crusades.

  Cartographer(s): Syrian Department of Antiquities

  Place/Date: Damascus / ca. 1923

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• Karte von Palätina oder dem heiligen Lande nach ältern und den neuesten besten Quellen entworfen zum Studium der heiligen Schrift und zum Gebrauche für Schulen eingerichtet von Dr. Carl Beiling Director, Mitglied m . gel. Gesellschaften

  Gorgeous and rare large-format map of the Holy Land with a plan of Jerusalem.

  Cartographer(s): Carl Beiling

  Place/Date: Munich / 1843

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• Guide Map of Jerusalem Ancient and New

  Pictorial map of Jerusalem with both ancient and modern sites

  Cartographer(s): H. M. King & S. Spyridon

  Place/Date: Jerusalem / ca. 1930

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• [proof state] Carte topographique de la Palestine / Dressée d’après la carte topographique levée par le savant Jacotin…

  Unrecorded proof state of the Vandermaelen-Jacotin map of Palestine.

  Cartographer(s): Philippe Vandermaelen, Pierre Jacotin, Rare Maps by Jean van de Cotte

  Place/Date: Brussels / 1847

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• Arabie

  Lovely 18th century map of Arabia with large inset of the Great Mosque of Mecca [المسجد الحرام]

  Cartographer(s): Anonymous

  Place/Date: Paris / ca. 1740

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• Mare Rubrum seu Sinus Arabicus ad observationes maximam partem ab Auctore annis MDCCLXII et MDCCLXIII institutas delineatus a C. Niebuhr

  Carsten Niebuhr’s transformative map of the Red Sea.

  Cartographer(s): Carsten Niebuhr

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / 1774

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• Map of Jordan. Holy Land

  Pre-Six-Day War map of Jordan including Jerusalem, with vignettes of important monuments.

  Cartographer(s): Tourism Bureau of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

  Place/Date: Amman / 1961

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• A New & Accurate Map of Persia with the adjacent Countries. Drawn from the most approved Modern Maps, &c.

  Map of the Persian Empire, with parts of the Ottoman Empire

  Cartographer(s): Emanuel Bowen

  Place/Date: London / 1747

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• Costantinopoli

  Mid-16th century Lafreri view of Istanbul.

  Cartographer(s): Giulio Ballino, Paolo Forlani

  Place/Date: Venice / 1567

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• Nieuwe kaart van Arabia…

  Detailed Tirion map of Arabia in excellent colors.

  Cartographer(s): Isaak Tirion

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1740

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• Deliniantur in hac Tabula, Orae Maritimae Abexiae, Freti Mecani; al Maris Rubri; Arabiae, Ormi, Persiae, Supra Sindam usq, Fluminis Indi, Cambriae India & Malabaris, Insulae, Ceylon

  1596 Navigational chart of the Indian Ocean in spectacular full color.

  Cartographer(s): Jan Huygen van Linschoten

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / 1596

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• Map of Western Palestine from surveys conducted for The Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund. By Lieuts. C. R. Conder and H. H. Kitchener, R. E. Reduced from the one inch map in twenty six sheets. Special Edition Illustrating The Divisions of The Natural Drainage And the Mountain Ranges…

  Large 1882 Special Edition of Kitchener & Conder’s famous Map of Western Palestine.

  Cartographer(s): Claude R. Conder & Horatio Kitchener

  Place/Date: London / 1882

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• Hierosolymia, Clarissima totius Orientis civitas…

  1582 town-plan of Jerusalem

  Cartographer(s): Georg Braun & Franz Hogenberg

  Place/Date: Colonge / 1582

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• Road Map to Iran

  Folding tourist map of Iran with photographic vignettes

  Cartographer(s): Aziz Hatami

  Place/Date: Tehran / ca. 1972

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• Carte Particulere de la Mer Rouge & c. Levee par Ordre des Roys de Portugal

  Decorative c. 1700 Mortier map of the Red Sea with important inset maps of Mombasa and Perim.

  Cartographer(s): Pierre Mortier

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1700

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• Nouvelle Carte Générale des Provinces Asiatiques de l’Empire Ottoman (sans l’Arabie) dressée par Henri Kiepert, Berlin 1883. Chemins De Fer d’après l’état de 1909.

  Colossal 1909 map of the Ottoman Empire composed during the ‘New Great Game’and the lead-up to World War I

  Cartographer(s): Heinrich Kiepert

  Place/Date: Berlin / 1909

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• Beschreibung des heiligen Landes Canaan

  Decorative late 16th century woodcut map of the Holy Land

  Cartographer(s): Heinrich Bünting

  Place/Date: Leipzig / ca. 1590

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• Tabula Asiae VI

  16th century map of Arabia on a Ptolemaic projection.

  Cartographer(s): Girolamo Ruscelli

  Place/Date: Venice / ca. 1574

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• Terra Sancta, sive Promissionis, olim Palestina Recens Delineata, et in Lucem Edita

  1680 De Wit map of the Holy Land with Jerusalem

  Cartographer(s): Frederick de Wit

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / 1680

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• [Title on Verso] Tabula Septima Asiae Complectitur Margianam, Bactrianam, Sogdianam, Sacas, & Scythiam, Intra Imaum Montem

  1541 Ptolemaic map of Central Asia

  Cartographer(s): Laurent Fries

  Place/Date: Vienne / 1545

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• Golfe Arabique ou Mer Rouge…

  18th century French chart of the Red Sea.

  Cartographer(s): Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville

  Place/Date: Paris / 1765

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• Mare Rubrum seu Sinus Arabicus ad observationes maximam partem ab Auctore annis MDCCLXII et MDCCLXIII institutas delineatus a C. Niebuhr

  Seminal Red Sea map

  Cartographer(s): Carsten Niebuhr

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / 1774

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• Arabia

  J. Blaeu atlas map of Arabia

  Cartographer(s): Joannes Blaeu

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1661

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• Arabia Felice Nuova Tavola

  1561 copper-engraved map of Arabia.

  Cartographer(s): Girolamo Ruscelli

  Place/Date: Venice / 1561

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• Arabia Felice Nuova Tavola

  16th century map of the Arabian Peninsula

  Cartographer(s): Girolamo Ruscelli

  Place/Date: Venice / 1564

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• Taffel der Lender darin den Apoftel Paulus geprediget hat

  1585 Bünting eastern Mediterranean wood-cut map illustrating the travels of St. Paul.

  Cartographer(s): Heinrich Bünting

  Place/Date: Leipzig / ca. 1585

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• Beschreibung des Heiligen Landes

  1585 Bunting woodcut map of the Holy Land.

  Cartographer(s): Heinrich Bünting

  Place/Date: Leipzig / 1585

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• Arabiae Felicis, Petrae ae et Desertae Nova et Accurata Delineatio

  Decorative Dutch map of Arabia.

  Cartographer(s): Jan Janssonius

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1660

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• Turcici Imperii Imago

  Early 17th century Ottoman Empire with conqueror of Constantinople.

  Cartographer(s): Jodocus Hondius

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1606

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• Arabia, Egypt, Abyssinia, Red Sea &c.

  1814 Thomson map of Arabia with caravan routes.

  Cartographer(s): John Thomson

  Place/Date: Edinburgh / 1814

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• Deliniantur in hac Tabula, Orae Maritimae Abexiae, Freti Mecani; al Maris Rubri; Arabiae, Ormi, Persiae, Supra Sindam usq, Fluminis Indi, Cambriae India & Malabaris, Insulae, Ceylon

  Jan Huygens van Linschoten’s iconic navigational chart of the Indian Ocean in spectacular full color.

  Cartographer(s): Jan Huygen van Linschoten

  Place/Date: Amsterdam / 1596

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• Persici sive Sophorum Regni Typus

  Lovely 1601 Ortelius map of the Persian Empire

  Cartographer(s): Abraham Ortelius

  Place/Date: Antwerp / 1601

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