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First Islamic Wall Map of the Arabian Peninsula.
...مملك محروسهء شاهانه دن آسيا / [The Royal Palace of Asia...].
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A rare large-format 1871 Ottoman wall map of Arabia by military officer Yusbasi Husni (Hüsnü) Efendi. This is the earliest known large-scale Islamic wall map of Arabia. It was produced amid major administrative changes and cartographic developments, when the Ottoman Empire was securing its tenuous control of Mecca, Medina, and Yemen against both internal and external pressure. (more details)
Earliest Acquirable Printed Map of Arabia.
Sexta Asiae Tabula.
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A foundational work of Renaissance cartography: this is the first acquirable printed map of the Arabian Peninsula. Appearing in the Rome edition of Ptolemy, in its 1478 printing, it is preceded only by the unacquirable 1477 Bologna Ptolemy. Ptolemy's 2nd-century innovation of representing the three-dimensional world on a grided mathematical projection provided the basis of all modern cartography. Of all the early printed versions of Ptolemy's maps, those produced for the Rome edition are considered the finest until Mercator's 1578 edition. The present example is embellished with attractive old hand color. (more details)
First map to name Abu Dhabi.
Reduzirte-Karte vom Persischen Golf.
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This is Heinrich Berghaus's groundbreaking 1832 map of the Persian Gulf, identified by historian Cyrus Alai as 'the most detailed' map of the Gulf. Significantly, it is the earliest printed map to name Abu Dhabi (Abuthubbi / Bûthabîn / أبوظبي). The map was part of Berghaus's seminal Atlas von Asia, a loose-leaf collection of highly detailed regional maps of Asia, each an individual masterpiece of cartographic achievement. (more details)
Earliest Map of Abu Dhabi after Independence.
This is a large-format c. 1971 Arabic-language map of Abu Dhabi and environs prepared by Mohamed Morsi Abdullah. It constitutes the earliest official map of Abu Dhabi as an independent, post-colonial entity and as the capital of the United Arab Emirates (U.A.E.). (more details)
One of the Earliest Printed Maps of Arabia.
Sexta Asie Tabula.
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This is the Waldseemüller / Ringmann 1513 map of Arabia, considered one of the earliest acquirable maps of the Arabian Peninsula and essential to any serious Arabia collection. It was issued for Waldseemüller and Ringmann's 1513 Geographie Opus Novissima, then the most thoroughly edited and amended edition of Ptolemy. Moreover, this map was the most detailed map of the Arabian Peninsula to have been produced to date, illustrating and naming many of the islands of the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, and including comprehensive interior detail. Despite presenting ancient geography, the detail of Ptolemaic maps of the region had yet to be improved upon significantly, and so this map remained one of the most detailed maps of the Arabian Peninsula available, illustrating and naming many of the islands of the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, and including comprehensive interior detail. (more details)
An Unusual Wall Map of the Gulf Region.
This is a rare c. 1972 wall map of the Persian / Arabian Gulf region by Ibrahim Hilmi al-Ghouri. Published by the Scientific Foundation for Educational Aids, it was likely intended for classroom use in the United Arab Emirates. (more details)
Seminal Map heralding the birth of Qatar's Petroleum Industry.
This is a remarkable, very large-format 1970 bilingual three-sheet geological map of Qatar, prepared by an international team of geologists and published by Ali Mohammed Jaidah. It represents the first comprehensive geological survey of the country and therefore played an important role in the subsequent development of Qatar's oil and gas industry. (more details)
Abu Dhabi on the Cusp of Independence and Modernization.
مَدِينَةُ أَبُو ظَبِي الحَدِيثَة [Modern Abu Dhabi City]. / عَامَانِ زَاهِيَان فِي تَارِيخِ إِمَارَةِ أَبُو ظَبِي [Two Glorious Years in the History of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi].
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This is a rare 1968 folding map of Abu Dhabi, appearing in the scarce Arabic edition of the Two Glorious Years in the History of the Emirate of Abu Dhabi. The map and book were published in a period of rapid transformation for the emirate, which was preparing for independence and implementing the early phase of a radical modern urban plan. (more details)
Planning Egypt's Agricultural Future.
التفتيش العام ري الوجه القبلي / [General Inspection of Irrigation of Upper Egypt].
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A unique and striking cartographic production clocking in at over 30 feet long, this 'strip map' was prepared c. 1940 to catalog irrigation works along the Nile River for most of its course through Egypt, from Cairo to Aswan. It was made by (or for) the Egyptian Ministry of Public Works, with extensive annotations suggesting 'field use.' (more details)
Birth of Qatar's Petroleum Boom, Prepared on the Eve of Independence
This is a stunning, large-format 1970 bilingual geological map of Qatar, prepared by an international team of geologists and published by Ali Mohammed Jaidah. It represents the first comprehensive geological survey of the country and therefore played an important role in the subsequent development of Qatar's oil and gas industry. (more details)
Hydrographic projects on the River Nile, and the Prospective Suez Canal.
Carte Hydrographique de la Basse Égypte/ Carte Hydrographique de la Moyenne Égypte/Carte Hydrographique de la Partie Septentrionale de la Haute Egypte/ Carte Hydrographique de la Partie Méridionale de la Haute Egypte.
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This is a set of four large, superbly detailed maps of Egypt by Linant de Bellefonds, detailing the course of the River Nile and the prospective routes of the Suez Canal. The four maps are on a uniform scale and were sold a group by Paris mapseller Lanée, to American congregationalist preacher and professor Roswell Dwight Hitchcock, probably in 1869 in preparation for that avid traveler's 1870 visit to Egypt. These were easily the most detailed maps to cover the Egyptian Nile available at that time, and their rich detail of ancient and reference to Biblical monuments would have been compelling. Taken together, the maps illuminate the Nile continuously from the Mediterranean Sea to the cataracts upstream of Aswan. (more details)
The Heart of Portuguese Power in the East.
Deliniantur in hac tabula, Orae maritimae Abexiae, freti Mecani. al. Marís Rubri, Arabiae, Ormi, Persiae...
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This is Jan van Linschoten's seminal 1596 map of the lands abutting the Indian Ocean, with coverage extending from the Arabian Peninsula to Sumatra. This map represents a significant advancement in accuracy and detail over any prior printed map of the region, setting the standard for most subsequent maps of the near east and south Asia for the remainder of the 16th and throughout the 17th century. Moreover, it exposed preciously guarded secrets of Portuguese maritime geography, paving the way for the Dutch seizure of the East India trade, thus spurring the Dutch Golden Age. (more details)
Foundational map of the Nile Delta and the basis of all subsequent regional maps.
كهاريطات الءواجه الءباحاري ليلأقاليم الءميصريياه / [Map of the Egyptian Regions facing the Sea].
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A striking, important, and rare Arabic-language chromolithographed map of the Nile Delta, prepared in 1872 by Mahmoud Bey al-Falaky. Aside from its aesthetic qualities, it also represented the most accurate map of the region when it was produced, combining the most up-to-date cartographic methods with extensive research on local placenames, terrain, and topography. As this map replaced French benchmark maps of the region from the early 19th century, it became the new gold standard and was continually used as the basis for most subsequent maps. (more details)
Only known example. Beauchamp's manuscript map of Persia/ Iran and Iraq - the first scientific map of these regions.
Itinéraire du Voyage Fait par Mr. Beauchamp Astronome et correspond de la cui dev. Acad. des Sciences.
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An extraordinary discovery, this finely executed (hand-drawn) c. 1790 map of Syria, Iraq, and Iran / Persia is the only known map recording the explorations of the French astronomer and clergyman, Pierre-Joseph de Beauchamp. Comprising of the first scientific mapping of any significant part Persia/Iraq, coverage extends from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf and reaches as far north as Lake Van and the Caspian Sea. While we cannot definitively prove it, we believe this map to have been composed in Beauchamp's own hand for the use of Joseph Jérôme Lefrançois de Lalande (1732 - 1807), a fellow astronomer and friend. It may have been he who added additional annotations and place names to the map in light red ink. (more details)
House of Saud's modernization of Mecca.
المملكة العربية السعودية (الأقطار الحجازية) مدينة مكة المكرمة / [The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Hejaz Territories) the Holy City of Mecca].
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A remarkable find, this scarce, large-format Arabic-language map of the holy city of Mecca was prepared in 1948 by the Survey of Egypt. This map reflects an effort by the House of Saud to mark their rule over the Hejaz and the holy sites therein by making Mecca more accessible to Muslims. (more details)
House of Saud's Modernization of Mecca.
المملكة العربية السعودية (الأقطار الحجازية) مدينة مكة المكرمة / [The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (Hejaz Territories) the Holy City of Mecca].
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A remarkable find; this scarce, large-format Arabic-language map of the holy city of Mecca was prepared in 1948 by the Survey of Egypt. This map reflects an effort by the House of Saud to mark their rule over the Hejaz and the holy sites therein by making Mecca more accessible to Muslim pilgrims. (more details)
A rare, early copperplate map of India, Persia, and Arabia.
Seconda Tavola.
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This is a scarce copperplate edition, commonly dated 1563, of the first accurate map of South Asia, including India, Arabia, and the Persian Gulf. It was drawn for Giovanni Battista Ramusio by his friend, the great cartographer Giacomo Gastaldi. The map was first published in Volume I of Ramusio's delle Navigationi et Viaggi in 1554, but this copperplate edition was engraved by Niccolo Nelli to replace the original woodblock after it was lost in a fire. (more details)
Rare Peek into Daily Life in the Emirates during the 1950s.
ساحل عمان [Coast of Oman]. / الإمارات السبع على الساحل الأخضر [The Seven Emirates on the Green Coast].
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This is a 1957 map of the Trucial States, the future United Arab Emirates, that appeared in the book The Seven Emirates on the Green Coast, written by Ahmad Qasim Al-Burini. Al-Burini's account is one of the most detailed historical accounts of the emirates in this formative period. (more details)
Last Days of French Rule in Lebanon.
Carte générale du Liban / خريطة لبنان عامة.
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This is a 1945 bilingual French-Arabic wall map of Lebanon, prepared by the Service Géographique des Forces Françaises Libres (Geographic Service of Free France). The map captures the final days of the French Mandate World in Lebanon at the end of World War II (1939 - 1945). (more details)
Ancient Meets Modern.
Plan de la ville de Ghizeh / خريطة مدينة الجيزة.
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A scarce large-format bilingual (French - Arabic) city map of plan of Giza, Egypt, prepared by the Egyptian Supervision (Ministry) of Public Works and printed in 1887 by the National Printing Press of Egypt. It was produced as Giza was becoming an increasingly popular destination for European Egyptologists, a process facilitated by the completion of the railway seen here. (more details)
Red Sea and French attempts to sieze control of the India Ocean.
Carte Générale de la Mer Rouge...
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This is a c. 1799 set of three nautical maps or charts covering the Red Sea, produced by the French Dépôt Général de la Marine. At the time, the Red Sea had become a key strategic waterway due to Napoleon's invasion of Egypt and the wider geopolitical struggles of the French Revolutionary Wars, prompting significant remapping. (more details)
Wartime German Military Reissue of Seminal French Map of Lebanon.
Carte du Liban d'aprés les reconaissances de la Brigade Topographique du Corps Expéditionnaire de Syrie en 1860-1861.
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This is a 1915 WWI Era German Deputy General Staff issue of a French Dépôt de la Guerre map of Lebanon, then an Ottoman territory. It was issued in anticipation of combat action in the Lebanese Levant, an area then considered unstable due to weak Ottoman rule and ongoing sectarian violence. (more details)
The Indian Army's Showcase Campaign in the Great War.
Mesopotamia Sheet No. 4.
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This is a rare 1917 Survey of India map focusing on the key strategic regions of Basra-Zubair in south-eastern Iraq and the adjacent Khorramshahr area of Persia, one of the first maps to show Abadan - the first oil boomtown of the Middle East. It was also a showcase theater for the employment of units of the Indian Army, whose officers were given charge of the campaign at the beginning of the war. (more details)
One of the Earliest Modern Maps of the Indian Ocean.
Tabu. Moder. Indiae.
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This is Laurent Fries' edition of the earliest acquirable modern mapping of South Asia. While the topography and place names are faithfully drawn from Martin Waldseemüller's map of 1513, Fries' map also includes evocative woodcut illustrations and descriptive text drawn not from the 1513 Ptolemy, but instead from Waldseemüller's 1516 Carta Marina. Consequently, the geography shown here was thoroughly modern. (more details)
Philanthropy in the Face of Atrocity.
The Present Areas of Near East Relief Activities.
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A scarce c. 1922 map of the Near East, produced by Near East Relief, an organization tasked with assisting refugees, particularly Armenians and Greeks, fleeing from Turkey. It was produced in the wake of one of the worst atrocities, the Burning of Smyrna, which destroyed the Greek and Armenian quarters. The efforts of the New East Relief saved over a million lives and are considered of the most successful humanitarian efforts of the 20th century. (more details)
A foundational map of Persia, Arabia, and India.
Premiere Partie de la Carte d'Asie contenant La Turquie, L'Arabie, La Perse, L'Inde en deca du Gange et de la Tartarie ce qui est limitrophe de la Perse et de l'Inde.
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A monumental and highly detailed 1751 map of India, Persia, and Arabia by the French cartographer Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville. Centered on Persia, this map covers from Istanbul to eastern India and Tibet, and from the Black Sea to the Maldives. It offers ... (more details)
A foundational map of Persia, Arabia, and India.
Premiere Partie de la Carte d'Asie contenant La Turquie, L'Arabie, La Perse, L'Inde en deca du Gange et de la Tartarie ce qui est limitrophe de la Perse et de l'Inde.
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A monumental and highly detailed 1751 map of India, Persia, and Arabia by the French cartographer Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville. Centered on Persia, this map covers from Istanbul to eastern India and Tibet, and from the Black Sea to the Maldives. It offers ... (more details)
Most finely-engraved Ptolemaic map of Arabia.
Asiae VI Tab.
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This is Gerard Mercator's map of the Arabian Peninsula, based on the second-century mapping of Claudius Ptolemy (c. 100 - 170), the progenitor of modern geography. Mercator executed this map for his 1578 Duisberg edition of Ptolemy's Geographia, intended to be the definitive edition of that foundational work. (more details)
Earliest Printed Map to show the Hajj.
Carte des Trois Arabies Tirée en Parte de l'Arabe de Nubie, en partie de divers autres Autheurs, Par le S. N. Sanson d'Abbeville, Geographe ordinaire du Roy, A Paris.
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This is an attractive example of Nicolas Sanson's scarce 1654 map of the Arabian Peninsula. As indicated in the title, it depicts the three Arabias: Arabie Petree, Arabie Deserte, and Arabia Heureuse; that is, Stony Arabia, Desert Arabia, and 'Happy' Arabia. The map depicts both shores of the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, and the Indian Ocean island of Zocotora off the horn of Africa. The map includes Mecca and Medina, and the pattern of named settlements describes the Hajj routes: along the Red Sea coast, the overland routes across the peninsula from Basra, and the route to Mecca from Damascus. The Kingdom of Bahrain (Bahraim) appears as well. The largest portion of the Arabian Peninsula is here named Hyaman, ou Arabie Heureuse: 'Yemen, or Happy Arabia.' (more details)
Earliest accurate European map of Mecca.
[Plan de la ville de La Mecque].
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A groundbreaking 1814 map of Mecca by Ali Bey el Abbassi. This was the first accurate city map of Mecca produced by a non-Muslim European - Ali Bey el Abbassi, a Spanish-born Arabist who spent years traveling throughout Arabia and North Africa. It displays the holy city as it appeared in the early 19th century. (more details)
Previously unknown!. Earliest specific map of Kurdistan.
Carta dell'Armenia, Kurdistan e Lazistán della Russia meridionale e Persia occidentale ecc.
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An unrecorded c. 1875 A. Nodari and A. de Bianchi map of the Kurdistan, Armenia, and the Caucuses. This previously unknown map may be considered the earliest known map of specifically of Kurdistan. It emerged during a period of rising ethnic and cultural division among Kurds and Armenians in the context of persistent Russian expansionism into the Caucuses and towards the Mediterranean, culminating in the Russo-Turkish War (1877 - 1878), the postwar Ottoman drive to assimilate Kurds, and events such as the Hamidian Massacres presaging the Armenian Genocide. (more details)
Critical Node of the Global Oil Supply.
Tactical Commanders' Terrain Analysis Ras Tanura Area Ras Tanura Urban Area Map / Ras Tanura Area Orientation Map AP-1-380-46-65-INT. TacCTA Ras Tanura Saudi Arabia.
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This is a 1965 Tactical Commanders' Terrain Analysis (TacCTA) map of Ras Tanura, Saudi Arabia, prepared by the Army Map Service for the Defense Intelligence Agency. The area is home to a large Saudi Aramco oil refinery and port, the main avenue for Saudi Arabia's oil exports, and the map would have been vital for any military operation that might take place there. (more details)