![[Arabia] Tabula Asiae VI](/map/small/62056.jpg)
Early Map of the Middle East Fine example of Gastaldi's map of Arabia, the Red Sea and the Gulf, based upon Claudius Ptolemy. Includes a mermaid at the lower right corner. Giacomo Gastaldi's Atlas of 1548 has been called the most comprehensive atlas...
Nice example of the first state of Ruscelli's modern map of Saudi Arabia, the Persian Gulf and Red Sea, from Ruscelli's Geografia. Ruscelli's map is one of the earliest obtainable modern maps of the region. The map is an enlarged edition of Giacomo...
![[Arabian Peninsula] Tabula Asiae VI](/map/small/65903.jpg)
Fine dark impression of Ruscelli's map of the Saudi Peninsula and surrounding waters. The map is based upon the work of Claudius Ptolemy. Ptolemy was an Alexandrian mathematician, astronomer, geographer and astrologer. He lived in the city of...
![[Arabian Peninsula] Tabula Asiae VI](/map/small/68189.jpg)
Ptolemy's Arabia Felix Detailed map of the Arabian Peninsula and environs, based upon the work of Ptolemy. From an early edition of Magini's Geographia.
Nice example of this early state of Langenes / Bertius map of the Arabian Peninsula, which first appeared in the 1598 edition of Langenes's Caert-Thresoor, published in Middelburg. Langenes's map was first issued in his Caert-Thresoor and later...
Nice example of this early state of Barent Langenes's map of the Turkish Empire which first appeared in the 1598 edition of Langenes's Caert-Thresoor, published in Middelburg. The present map is one of the earliest obtainable maps of the region....
Attractive map of Egypt tracking the Nile from Aswan to the Mediterranean and extending East to the Red Sea, based upon a larger map by Hondius. Includes two cartouches. From the 1625-26 edition of Purchas His Pilgrims, one of the seminal early 17th...
The Persian Empire in the 17th Century Decorative map of Persia extending from Saudi Arabia and Turkey to the Indus River, centered on Persia, with the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf in the South and Caspian and Tartaria in the North. A very detailed...
Rare Map of the Arabian Peninsula by Sanson An excellent example of this scarce map of the Arabian Peninsula, referencing the "Trois Arabies" (Three Arabias). This exemplary work by the father of French cartography, Nicolas Sanson, is one of the few...
Striking large format map of Arabia and the Red Sea, published by Jansson. The map references the "Mare Elcatif or Sinus Persicus," showing both the Persian and Arab names for the Gulf between Persia and Saudi Arabia. This reflects both the name used...
Interesting antique engraved three-part map of the Middle East following the travels of Renaissance writer Pietro Della Valle (1586-1652). The maps show voyages from Venice to Baghdad, from Cairo to Aleppo, and from Aleppo to Baghdad.
Detailed map of Syria published in Amsterdam by Jansson. The map extends from Damascus and Sidon in the south, to Edessa, Alexandretta, and Antioch in the north as well as to Aleppo, Palmyrena, Damant, etc. The map also extends from the Mediterranean...
![Tabula Itineris Decies Mille Graecorum sub Cyro contra fratrem Artaxerxem Regem Persarum… [Shows Cyprus]](/map/small/46366.jpg)
This nicely engraved map features the expedition of Cyrus the Great (558-528 B.C.), the founder of the Persian Empire. Shows expedition route of conquest from the Eastern Mediterranean through Turkey to Armenia and Babylon. Centered on Cyprus. Three...
Striking example of Jacob Meurs map of the Arabian Peninsula, Red Sea and the southwestern part of the Persian Empire. Meurs bases his map on an earlier map by Frederick De Wit, published in Amsterdam. The map is relatively scarce on the market....
A Rare German Variant! Detailed map of the Arabian Peninsula, published in Nuremberg by Johann Hoffman, and based upon an earlier map by Pierre Du Val. The Island of Baharem (Bahrain) is shown in the Mer Elcatif.
Scarce View of Damascus Detailed birdseye view of Damascus, published in Augsburg by Jakob Koppmayr. A fine dark impression.
