Middle East - Holy Land Maps
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[Jerusalem Drawing]
Jan Luyken’s dramatic and intense visualization of Ancient Jerusalem.
Cartographer(s): Jan LuykenPlace/Date: Not listed / ca. 1699$2,400 Add to cart -
Plan of Ancient Jerusalem.
Pierotti’s scientific 19th-century plan depicting Ancient Jerusalem.
Cartographer(s): Ermete PierottiPlace/Date: London / 1864$400 Add to cart -
Wailing Place of the Jews, A Portion of the Ancient Wall…
Pierotti’s evocative 19th-century view of the Wailing Wall.
Cartographer(s): Ermete PierottiPlace/Date: London / 1864$375 Add to cart -
[Data Visualization] Palästina-Wirtschafts-Atlas.
A scarce 1926 Zionist statistical atlas of Jewish life in Palestine, published in Weimar Germany.
Cartographer(s): Davis TrietschPlace/Date: Berlin / 1926$8,500 Add to cart -
The Turkish Empire. Newly Augmented by John Speed.
The first English map to offer a detailed view of the Ottoman Empire.
Cartographer(s): John SpeedPlace/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 OilPlace/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 CristianaPlace/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): AnonymousPlace/Date: Not listed / 1939$775 Add to cart -
Prima Asiae Tabula.
The first printed map of Turkey.
Cartographer(s): Claudius PtolemyPlace/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.
Place/Date: Venice / 1568$1,700 Add to cart -
Hayastan: hamaynagitakan Hayastan (Armenia: Encyclopedic Armenia)
A cartographic celebration of Armenia and Armenian culture.
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 AffairsPlace/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 WeeklyPlace/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 PierottiPlace/Date: Paris / 1860$1,400 Add to cart -
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 HogenbergPlace/Date: Cologne / ca. 1575$775 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.
Place/Date: London / 1869$3,500 Add to cart -
Plan of Ancient Troy
When artifact becomes cartifact — locally-published and detailed archaeological plan of Ancient Troy.
Cartographer(s): AYLAPlace/Date: Çanakkale / 1964$175 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 BaconPlace/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 -
[Title in Russian] Syria
Cold War era Soviet map of Syria.
Cartographer(s): General Directorate of Geodesy and Cartography (USSR)Place/Date: Moscow / 1977$175 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 OrteliusPlace/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 RenardPlace/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 FamilyPlace/Date: Augsburg / ca. 1790$675 Add to cart -
[Old Damascus]
Unrecorded large-scale cyanotype archaeological plan of Old Damascus during the Crusades.
Cartographer(s): Syrian Department of AntiquitiesPlace/Date: Damascus / ca. 1923$1,900 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 NiebuhrPlace/Date: Copenhagen / 1771$900 Add to cart
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[Two maps sold together] The First Ordnance Surveys of Jerusalem. By Captain Charles W. Wilson R.E. Under The Direction of Colonel Sir Henry James, R.E. F.R.S. & C. Director of the Ordnance Survey. 1864-5.
The British Ordnance Survey of 1864-65 was the first scientific attempt to map Jerusalem and its environs, a watershed survey that saw two of the finest Victorian maps ever created.
Cartographer(s): Ordinance Survey OfficePlace/Date: London / 1865Read more -
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.
Place/Date: London / 1855Read more -
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.
Place/Date: London / 1855Read more -
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 OrderPlace/Date: Mecca / [early 20th c.?] 1893Read more -
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 BowenPlace/Date: London / 1747Read more -
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-hasbaraPlace/Date: Jerusalem / 1969Read more -
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 LinschotenPlace/Date: Amsterdam / 1596Read more -
Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem. This Survey Was Made In The Years 1864-5 By Captain Charles W. Wilson R.E. and a Party of Royal Engineers From The Ordinance Survey. Under The Direction of Colonel Sir Henry James, R.E. F.R.S. & C. Director of the Ordnance Survey.
The first Ordnance Survey of Jerusalem and environs.
Cartographer(s): Ordinance Survey OfficePlace/Date: London / 1865Read more -
[Suez Crisis Sinai Peninsula Map]
1956 Israeli battlefield map of the Sinai Peninsula Campaign from the Second Arab-Israeli War (Suez Crisis).
Cartographer(s): AnonymousPlace/Date: Not listed / 1956Read more -
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.
Place/Date: Washington, D.C. / 1963Read more -
Tripoli
1918 British Survey Map of Tripoli (Lebanon) and Surroundings.
Cartographer(s): Survey of EgyptPlace/Date: Cairo / Oct. 1918Read more -
Homs
1918 British Survey Map of Homs and the Orontes.
Cartographer(s): Survey of EgyptPlace/Date: Cairo / Oct. 1918Read more -
Central Map of Tehran
An absolutely marvelous lithograph of Tehran, produced during the tumultuous late 1950s.
Cartographer(s): The Sahab Geographic and Drafting InstitutePlace/Date: Tehran / 1961Read more -
[Pair of Panoramas] DAMAS No.1. & DAMAS No.2.
Two unrecorded panoramic photographs of Damascus under the French Mandate.
Cartographer(s): AnonymousPlace/Date: Not listed / ca. 1925Read more -
Amman in Panorama
A graphic vista of Amman as a modern Arab Metropolis, published less than a decade after Jordanian Independence.
Place/Date: Beirut / 1953Read more -
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 KarraPlace/Date: Tel Aviv / 1949Read more -
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.
Place/Date: Paris / 1933Read more -
[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 / 1966Read more -
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 HogenbergPlace/Date: Cologne / 1588Read more -
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 CheesmanPlace/Date: London / 1925Read more -
Carte Généralle de l’Empire du Turc
Mid-17th century map of the Ottoman Empire with various Arabian cartographic myths.
Cartographer(s): Pierre MariettePlace/Date: Paris / 1646Read more -
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 / 1865Read more -
Sana’a: Nortech Surveys (Yemen)
A large, separately-issued map of Sanaʽa, capital of the newly reunited Republic of Yemen.
Cartographer(s): The Survey AuthorityPlace/Date: Sana'a / 1992Read more -
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 CompanyPlace/Date: Dhahran, Saudi Arabia / ca. 1973Read more -
[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 PressPlace/Date: Baghdad (?) / 1910Read more -
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 BeilingPlace/Date: Munich / 1843Read more -
Guide Map of Jerusalem Ancient and New
Pictorial map of Jerusalem with both ancient and modern sites
Cartographer(s): H. M. King & S. SpyridonPlace/Date: Jerusalem / ca. 1930Read more -
[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.
Place/Date: Brussels / 1847Read more -
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 NiebuhrPlace/Date: Amsterdam / 1774Read more -
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 JordanPlace/Date: Amman / 1961Read more -
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 BowenPlace/Date: London / 1747Read more -
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Nieuwe kaart van Arabia…
Detailed Tirion map of Arabia in excellent colors.
Cartographer(s): Isaak TirionPlace/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1740Read more -
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 LinschotenPlace/Date: Amsterdam / 1596Read more -
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 KitchenerPlace/Date: London / 1882Read more -
Road Map to Iran
Folding tourist map of Iran with photographic vignettes
Cartographer(s): Aziz HatamiPlace/Date: Tehran / ca. 1972Read more -
Hierosolymia, Clarissima totius Orientis civitas…
1582 town-plan of Jerusalem
Cartographer(s): Georg Braun & Franz HogenbergPlace/Date: Colonge / 1582Read more -
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 MortierPlace/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1700Read more -
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 KiepertPlace/Date: Berlin / 1909Read more -
Beschreibung des heiligen Landes Canaan
Decorative late 16th century woodcut map of the Holy Land
Cartographer(s): Heinrich BüntingPlace/Date: Leipzig / ca. 1590Read more -
Tabula Asiae VI
16th century map of Arabia on a Ptolemaic projection.
Cartographer(s): Girolamo RuscelliPlace/Date: Venice / ca. 1574Read more -
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 WitPlace/Date: Amsterdam / 1680Read more -
[Title on Verso] Tabula Septima Asiae Complectitur Margianam, Bactrianam, Sogdianam, Sacas, & Scythiam, Intra Imaum Montem
1541 Ptolemaic map of Central Asia
Cartographer(s): Laurent FriesPlace/Date: Vienne / 1545Read more -
Golfe Arabique ou Mer Rouge…
18th century French chart of the Red Sea.
Cartographer(s): Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'AnvillePlace/Date: Paris / 1765Read more -
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 NiebuhrPlace/Date: Amsterdam / 1774Read more -
Arabia
J. Blaeu atlas map of Arabia
Cartographer(s): Joannes BlaeuPlace/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1661Read more -
Arabia Felice Nuova Tavola
16th century map of the Arabian Peninsula
Cartographer(s): Girolamo RuscelliPlace/Date: Venice / 1564Read more -
Arabia Felice Nuova Tavola
1561 copper-engraved map of Arabia.
Cartographer(s): Girolamo RuscelliPlace/Date: Venice / 1561Read more -
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 BüntingPlace/Date: Leipzig / ca. 1585Read more -
Beschreibung des Heiligen Landes
1585 Bunting woodcut map of the Holy Land.
Cartographer(s): Heinrich BüntingPlace/Date: Leipzig / 1585Read more -
Arabiae Felicis, Petrae ae et Desertae Nova et Accurata Delineatio
Decorative Dutch map of Arabia.
Cartographer(s): Jan JanssoniusPlace/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1660Read more -
Turcici Imperii Imago
Early 17th century Ottoman Empire with conqueror of Constantinople.
Cartographer(s): Jodocus HondiusPlace/Date: Amsterdam / ca. 1606Read more -
Arabia, Egypt, Abyssinia, Red Sea &c.
1814 Thomson map of Arabia with caravan routes.
Cartographer(s): John ThomsonPlace/Date: Edinburgh / 1814Read more -
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 LinschotenPlace/Date: Amsterdam / 1596Read more -
Persici sive Sophorum Regni Typus
Lovely 1601 Ortelius map of the Persian Empire
Cartographer(s): Abraham OrteliusPlace/Date: Antwerp / 1601Read more
