Antique Maps of Central Asia and the Near East

367

[Map of the location of the Terrestrial Paradise] MOULLART-SANSON, Pierre.
Carte du Paradis Terrestre selon Moyse chap.2 de la Genese . Paris, 1724, coloured, 180 x 285mm (map); 280 x 405 (text).
From Moullart-Sanson's "Tabulas Methodicas, Genealogicas et Chronologicas".
The sheet in two parts, the upper register showing the entire Middle East and the site of Paradise between the four rivers, denoted by a small scene of Adam and Eve beneath the apple tree. The lower register is an explanatory text entitled "Table Historique du Premier Age du Monde" which sets out the exact characters, chronology and events of the first age of history up until the Great Flood. LAOR 515 .

£300

368

[Middle East & Cyprus] MERCATOR, Gerard.
Asiæ IIII. Tab:. Duisberg, c. 1578, original colour, 340 x 460mm. Lovely original colour.
From an early edition of Mercator's maps for Ptolemy's "Geographia", showing the Middle East and Cyprus with parts of the Mediterranean and Arabian & Persian Gulfs. With a strapwork cartouche containing a Latin description of the units of measurement used. KOEMAN Me. 1; TIBBETTS 39.

£980

369

[Turkish Empire] BLAEU, Willem Janszoon.
Turcicum Imperium. Amsterdam, 1640, French text edition. Original colour. 410 x 520mm.
The Turkish Empire, covering the Eastern Mediterranean and Arabia, with the title cartouche in full colour. TIBBETTS: 84, illus 8; KOEMAN: Bl 17.

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370

[The Turkish Empire] SPEED, John.
The Turkish Empire. London, George Humble, c.1627, coloured. 390 x 510mm. Very good impression.
From Speed's 'Prospect of the... World', with ten costume vignettes down the sides and eight city prospects, including Constantinople, Jerusalem and Alexandria, along the top. On the verso a description of the Turkish Empire and the religious habits of its people.

£2,500

371

[A Rare Separate-Issue Map] TODESCHI, Pietro?
Turcicum Imperium. Bologna: Todeschi? c.1670. 400 x 505mm.
Todeschi published a number of maps after Dutch cartographers, including a set of four wall maps of the continents after Blaeu and a carte à figure America after Jodocus Hondius. This map of the Turkish Empire even copies the dedication.

£1,500

372

[Turkish Empire] MOLL, Herman.
The Turkish Empire in Europe, Asia and Africa, Divided into all its Governments, together with the Other Territories that are Tributary to it, as also the Dominions of ye Emperor of Marocco. London, Moll, John Bowles, Thomas Bowles, Philip Overton & John King, c.1730. Original outline colour. Printed on two sheets and conjoined, total 610 x 1010mm. Minor restoration to binding folds, as is usual with these large maps..
Moll's large-format map of the Turkish Empire, also covering the whole Mediterreanean, first published 1714. There are inset prospects of Constantinople, Smirna and Jerusalem, and three views of the Holy Sepulcre. TIBBETTS: 202.

£2,200

373

[Turkish Empire] JAILLOT, Alexis-Hubert.
Estats del'Empire du Grand Seigneur des Turcs, en Europe, en Asie, et en Afrique... Paris, 1686. Original outline colour. Two sheets conjoined, total 580 x 880mm. Paper lightly toned.
A large map of the Turkish Empire after Sanson, decorated with two finely-engraved rococo cartouches. TIBBETTS: 151.

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374

[The "Ten Thousand" Greek Mercenaries in Persia] JANSSON, Jan.
Tabula Itineris Decies Mille Græcorum sub Cyro contra fratrem suum Artaxerxem Regem Persarum... Amsterdam, c.1700. Coloured. 410 x 590mm.
In BC 401 Cyrus led an army into Persia to wrest the throne from his brother Artaxerxes II. He had hired a group of Greek mercenaries, later known as the 'Ten Thousand.' After Cyrus was slain on the battlefield of Cunaxa, north of Bagdad, Xenophon led the mercenaries through Kurdistan and Armenia to the Black Sea and back to the Greek colonies in Ionia. Xenophon's account, the 'Anabasis', is one of the few extant eyewitness accounts of the Persian Empire, and an important description of the workings of a Greek army. This map was compliled by the French cartographer Pierre du Val, and published in Jansson's Atlas of the Antique World, which went through several editions 1652-1741.

£290

375

[Turkish Empire II.] ORTELIUS, Abraham
Turcici Imperii Descriptio. Concordia parue res crecunt, Discordia maxime dilabuntur... Antwerp, c.1570, Latin text edition. Original Colour. 380 x 500mm. Slight paper abrasion top right corner casuing slight circular discoloration , otherwise a fine example.
The Turkish Empire, from the second of two plates, used from 1579, replacing a very similar plate. This version has a pair of putti in the title cartouche. VAN DEN BROECKE: 169; TIBBETTS: 42..

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376

[Uncommon 2-sheet map of the Turkish Empire] CASSINI, Giovanni Maria.
Gli Imperi Antichi Parte Occidentale; Gli Imperi Antichi Parte Orientale. Rome, 1800. Coloured. Two sheets conjoined, total 500 x 690mm.
Two sheet map of the Turkish Empire, from the 'Nuovo Atlante Geografico Universale', with a decorative title cartouche on each sheet. A rare map.

£1,600

377

[Uncommon 2-sheet map of the Turkish Empire] CASSINI, Giovanni Maria.
Gli Imperi Antichi Parte Occidentale; Gli Imperi Antichi Parte Orientale. Rome, 1800. Two sheets, each c. 500 x 365mm.
Two sheet map of the Turkish Empire, from the 'Nuovo Atlante Geografico Universale', with a decorative title cartouche on each sheet. A rare map.

£1,500

378

[A Globe Gore]CORONELLI, Vincenzo Maria.
[Near East Gore Sheet]. Venice, c.1690. Plate size 440 x 120mm at top, spreading to 260mm at bottom. Bottom right corner redrawn in manuscript, right margin added.
A gore sheet, in typical Coronelli style, shaped to be pasted onto a globe over a metre in diameter but bound into a volume instead. It shows the White Sea in the Russian Arctic south to the Tropic of Cancer, with Moscow, the Black Sea, Georgia, eastern Turkey & Cyprus, Arabia Deserta & Bahrain, with the northern reaches of the Red Sea and Persian Gulf. An unusual and decorative item.

£450

379

[Turkish Empire] HONDIUS, Jodocus.
Turcicum Imperium. London: Henry Featherstone, 1625, English text edition. Coloured. 150 x 185mm, set in text.
First published in the reduced version of the Mercator/ Hondius 'Atlas Minor' of 1607, the printing plates were sold to a London publisher in 1621 and appeared in 'Purchas His Pilgrimies', as this example. Later Dutch editions used new plates by Jansson.

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380

[Copper-engraved Incunable map of Arabia] PTOLEMY, Claudius.
Sexta Asiae Tabula. Rome: Petrus de Turre, 1490. Printed area 280 x 500mm. Joined at the centre, as usual with this edition.
Published in the second edition of Angelus & Caldarini's edition of Ptolemy, first published 1478, and indistinguishable from the first edition. An unusual feature of the series is the lettering, which is not engraved with a burin but stamped onto the plate. SHIRLEY: World 4. "Many consider the Rome plates to be the finest Ptolemaic plates produced until Gerard Mercator engraved his classical world atlas of 1578".

£6,000

381

[Rare Example in Contemporary Colour] WÄLDSEEMÜLLER, Martin.
Tabula VI Asiae. Strassburg, Johannes Grüninger, 1525. Contemporary body colour. Woodcut, printed area 310 x 455mm. Very good condition except for a pair of small wormholes in the map area, another pair in the margins.
The Fries reduction of Wäldseemüller's Ptolemiac map of Arabia, in fine contemporary body colour. Originally intended not for a Ptolemy edition but for a new 'Chronica mundi' being written by Wäldseemüller, his death c.1520 caused the project to be shelved, so the woodcuts were used to publish a smaller sized and so cheaper edition of the 'Geography'. On verso is a Latin text surrounded by ornate woodcut borders. Originally published in 1522, this second edition has a new title banderole. TIBBETS: 18.

£3,500

382

[Ptolemaic Arabia] GASTALDI, Giacomo.
Tabula Asiæ VI. Venice, G.B.Pedrezano, 1548. Coloured. 130 x 175mm.
Ptolemaic Arabia, with a twin-tailed mermaid and a galley in the sea, and a long-tailed serpent in the trapezoid border. Published in Gastaldi's 'Geografia di Claudio Ptolemeo Alexandrino', one issue only. TIBBETTS: 25.

£350

383

[Arabia] ZATTA, Antonio.
L'Arabia Divisa in Petrea, Deserta e Felice. Venice, 1784. Original outline colour. 330 x 420mm.
A fine map of Arabia, with a decorative title cartouche in full colour, depicting cacti and an incense burner. TIBBETTS: 27.

£360

384

[Arabia] MEURS, Jacob van.
Nova Totius Arabiæ Foelicis, Petrææ, et Desertæ. Amsterdam, c.1680. 300 x 350mm.
Arabia, with fine title and scale cartouches. TIBBETTS: 137.

£480

385

[Uncommon Miniature Map of Arabia] MULLER, Johann Ulrich.
Arabia. Ulm, 1692. 70 x 80mm, set in text.
Charming miniature map, with a letterpress text in German.

£200

386

[Ptolemaic Arabia] MERCATOR, Gerard.
Tab. VI. Asiæ, Arabiam Felicem, Carmaniam ac Sinum Persicum comprehendens. Utrecht, François Halma, c.1695. Coloured. 340 x 475mm.
First published 1578, this map comes from Mercator's edition of Ptolemy's 'Geography', with the maps updated to Mercator's Projection. This example is of the second state, with a new title cartouche replacing the original strapwork one. TIBBETTS: 39.

£1,250

387

[Arabia] JANSSON, Jan.
Arabiæ Felicis, Petrææ et Desertæ nova at accurata delineatio. Amsterdam, Schenk & Valk, c.1700. Original body colour. 440 x 510mm.
An outstanding example of this decorative map of Arabia, in full body colour rather than the usual outline. TIBBETTS: 101.

£2,400

388

[Southern Arabia] THORNTON, John.
A Large Draught of the Coast of Arabia from Maculla to Dofar. By Sam.l Thornton at the signe of England Scotl.d and Ireland in the Mnories London. London, Samuel Thornton, c. 1711. 430 x 530mm. Trimmed within printed border at top & bottom, remargined with mss. fill; slight loss of paper surface in title made up with mss.
Rare chart of the southern coasts of Yemen and Oman, published in 'The English Pilot... the Third Book', engraved by Sutton Nichols.

£800

389

[Arabia] MALLET, Alain Manesson.
Arabie Moderne. Paris, 1683. Coloured. 140 x 100mm. Trimmed to printed border, laid on old paper.
Miniature map, published in the 'Description de l'Univers'. TIBBETTS: 143.

£140

390

[Arabia] TIRION, Isaak.
Nieuwe Kaart van Arabia... Amsterdam, 1744. Original colour. 290 x 360mm. Some minor restoration to binding folds, narrow margin top right.
Arabia, with some routes marked.

£750

391

[Blaeu's Uncommon Map of Arabia] BLAEU, Johannes.
Arabia. Amsterdam, 1662, Latin text edition. Original Colour. 420 x 535mm. Marginal tears repaired.
This fine map of Arabia was first issued in the Latin edition of the 'Atlas Major', 1662. However the pagination of this example does not match the listing in Koeman, suggesting an unknown edition. TIBBETTS: 108

£2,800

392

["one of the first examples of two-colour printing"] SYLVANUS, Bernard..
Sexta Asiae Tabula.; Septima Asiae Tabula. Venice, Jacopo Pentio de Leucho, 1511. Woodcut on two sheets conjoined, printed surface 340 x 490mm. Very fine condition, with good margins.
Depicting the Arabian peninsula and on the verso the Caspian sea and surrounding countries (present day Iran, Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan). This map is unusual in several ways. Firstly, having the names printed in red makes it one of the first examples of two-colour printing, achieved by printing the sheet twice. Secondly it is a hybrid map, essentially Ptolemaic, yet updated by Sylvanus with modern details. It is also what Shirley calls "an isolated example of Venetian cartographic enterprise", forty years before Gastaldi's version of Ptolemy. It was never reissued.

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393

[Arabia] CASSINI, Giovanni Maria.
L'Arabia delineatia sulle Ultime Osservazioni. Rome, 1797. 350 x 490mm.
Arabia, from the 'Nuovo Atlante Geografico Universale', with a decorative title cartouche. A rare map.

£900

394

[Arabia] CARY, John.
A New Map of Arabia, Including Egypt, Abyssinia, the Red Sea &c. &c. from the Lastest Authorities. London, 1811. Original colour. 470 x 520mm.
Detailed map, showing the caravan routes. Of interest is the route of the Frigate 'La Venus', which charted the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf, and the Indian Ocean before disappearing in a hurricane with all crew and cargo in 1788.

£550

395

[Arabia] Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
Arabia with Egypt, Nubia and Abyssinia. London, SDUK,1843. Original colour. 350 x 405mm.
Detailed maps, showing the caravan routes.

£125

396

[Arabia] MALLET, Alain Manesson.
Arabie. Paris, 1683. Coloured. 140 x 100mm.
Miniature map, published in the 'Description de l'Univers'. The title cartouche features two dragons intertwined. TIBBETTS: 144.

£170

397

[Cyprus and Eastern Mediterranean] DE L'ISLE, Guillaume.
Carte Générale de la Syrie / Palestine / Isle de Chypre. Published by Delamarche, Paris/ Bordeaux 1764 . Original body colour. 365 x 497 mm. Wide margins, excellent condition..
A very fine map of Syria, Palestine, and the island of Cyprus with part of the surrounding countries, prepared for the understanding of the history of the Crusades by Guillaume Delisle in 1726.
Very nice title cartouche on the lower right-hand corner.
Published by Joseph-Nicolas De l' Isle (or Delisle) (1688-1768), astronomer, geographer of the Marine and professor at the 'Académie Royale des Sciences'. Joseph-Nicolas found the map in his brother's belongings. He considered it of such importance for the understanding of the Holy Books, that he decided to publish it. With the address of the co-publisher Delamarche.RARE. Laor, 246.

£1,100

398

[The Holy Land] POSTEL, Guillaume.
Terræ Sanctæ Descriptio... Lyon: Guillaume Rouille, 1569. Woodcut, 165 x 210mm, set in text. Small burn mark in wide margins.
From a French bible, showing the places mentioned in the four Gospels. LAOR: 587.

£625

399

[The Exodus] BÜNTING, Heinrich.
Reisen der Kinder von Israel aus Egypten. Magdeburg, 1600, German edition. Woodcut, printed area 280 x 360mm. Centrefold reinforced on verso.
A map of the route taken by the Jews from Egypt to the Promised Land. Points of interest include Pharoh drowning in the Red Sea and Jonah on the back of a whale in the Mediterranean. The Israelites' route goes around Petra, the city that had been lost since classical times, and only rediscovered in the 19th century. LAOR: 142.

£480

400

[Scarce Map Of The Holy Land] DE JODE, Gerard.
Terræ Sanctæ, quæ Promissionis Terra, est Syriæ pars ea, quæ Palæstina vocatur, Descriptio. Antwerp, 1593. Latin text edition. Original colour. 310 x 515mm. Lower centrefold restored with minor manuscript reinstatement , two marginal repaired tears in the lower border.
Very scarce map of the Holy Land, engraved by the brothers Johannes and Lucas van Deutecum. It is a derivative of the broadsheet map by Tilemann Stella, published by Bernard van de Putte in Antwerp in 1557. Unfortunately, no example of the original version survives, so it is only through the derivatives, of which this is the earliest printed derivative, that Stella's delineation is known.
This map first appeared in Gerard de Jode's 'Speculum Orbis Terrarum', with this example from the second edition, the 'Speculum Orbis Terrae', which was published two years after Gerard's death by his widow and son Cornelis.
Along the lower border is engraved a fine prospect of Jerusalem, and two smaller insets of the chapel at Jerusalem and the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.Despite the repairs, this is a presentable example of an important map, a cornerstone of any Holy Land collection. Laor 375

£5,500

401

[Holy Land] JANSSON, Jan.
Situs Terræ Promissionis. S.S. Bibliorum intelligentiam exacte aperiens per Chr. Adrichom. Amsterdam, c.1700. Coloured. 370 x 500mm. Repaired tear in wide margins.
Andrichom's map of the Holy Land divided into the Twelve Tribes, oriented with north to the left and with a long garland of grapes and flowers above the map. LAOR: 23.

£560

402

[The FIRST "Modern" Map of Palestine] PTOLEMY, Claudius.
Tabula Moderna Terre Sancte.Ulm, Johan Reger, 1482-86. Original hand colour with blue finishing on the sea area and rivers. Woodcut, 325 x 560mm. Very minor restoration at centrefold.
Palestine from an early German edition of Ptolemy's Geography, but one of five 'modern' maps added. Despite this it still shows the tribal divisions.A highly collectible map, here in very fine condition and striking colouring. See LAOR: 603.

£14,000

403

[Speed's Map of the Holy Land] SPEED, John.
Canaan. London, Bassett & Chiswell, 1676. Coloured. 390 x 520mm. Some minor restoration.
The Holy Land, with an inset plan of Jerusalem, published in the 'Prospect of the... World'. On verso is an English text, 'The Description of Palestine', containing a mixture of fact and amusing myth. LAOR: 737.

£1,500

404

[Palestine] SANDRART, Jacob.
Die Reise der Kinder Israel aus Egypten... Nuremberg, c.1685. Coloured. 380 x 510mm. Two pairs of small wormholes in map area, marginal tear repaired.
The Peregrinations, with an elaborate cartouche showing the treasures of the Israelites. LAOR: 815.

£750

405

[Peregrinations of Abraham in Fabulous Original Colours] ORTELIUS, Abraham.
Abrahami Patriarchae Peregrinatio, et Vita. Antwerp, 1595, Latin text edition. Original Colour. 355 x 465mm. An Excellent Example with superb original colouring.
The first of two almost identical plates, used 1590-1595. It shows the Holy Land at the time of Abraham, with 22 circular vignette scenes from his life. In the Mediterranean is an inset map of northern Arabia. VAN DEN BROECKE: 182, approx. 925 copies only printed using this copperplate.

£2,300

406

[Judea] JANSSON, Jan.
Judææ seu Terræ Israelis Tabula geographica... Amsterdam: Heirs of Jan Jansson, c.1690. Coloured. 360 x485mm.
The Holy Land, decorated with a title cartouche featuring Moses and the Ten Commandments and a vignette of the two spies of Moses returning with a cluster of grapes so huge that they had to carry it on a staff between them. LAOR: 373.

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407

HILDEBRANDT, Ed.
Pilgerbad Im Jordan. Berlin, Raimund Mitscher, c.1865, chromolithograph colour, 235 x 350mm.
Showing pilgrims by the side of the River Jordan. Edward Hildebrandt was born in Danzig in 1818, the artist was the brother of Trite Hildebrandt (1819 - 1855), the marine painter. From 1860 - 1862 Hildebrandt went on a world tour, which included stops in the Middle East, India, Singapore, Siam (Thailand), Macao, Hong Kong, China, The Philippines, Japan and the United States. He worked mainly in watercolors. A folio of his works from his round-the-world voyage were published as chromolithographs in 1864 in Berlin under the title of "Reise Um Die Erde" (Journey around the Earth). The original watercolors from the voyage were exhibited in London in 1866 and at an exhibition at Crystal Palace in 1868, just a year before his death in Berlin.

£300

408

[16th C Woodblock of Palestine & Cyprus] MUNSTER, Sebastian
Palestine, Cyprus and the Eastern Mediterranean. Basle, Henricius Petri, c. 1552, coloured woodcut, 260 x 170mm.
Showing the eastern coasts of the Mediteranean, with part of Turkey, the coast of the Holy Land and Syria and Cyprus with a sailing ship and monster off its coasts. From a Latin version of Munster's "Cosmographia Universalis". With inset Latin explanatory texts giving historical and geographical information for travellers. On the verso is an explanatory text relating to the Holy Land, with a woodcut of Moses holding the ten commandments in Hebrew script. LAOR 528B.

£160

409

[Palestine] WELLS, Edward.
A New Map shewing the Travels of the Patriachs... Oxford, 1700. Coloured. 370 x 485mm.
Published for the 'New Set of Maps of Both Ancient and Present Geography'. LAOR: 834.

£150

410

[Palestine and the Mediterranean] WELLS, Edward.
A New Map shewing all the severall countries, Cities, Towns and other Places mentioned in the New Testament... Oxford, 1700. Coloured. 370 x 480mm.
Despite the main title, as above, this sheet contains three maps: Palestine; the eastern Mediterranean & Turkey; and a general map of the Mediterranean. Published for the "New Set of Maps of Both Ancient and Present Geography". LAOR: 836.

£220

411

[Palestine after Adricom] MORTIER, Pieter.
Situs Terræ Canaan, Sive Terræ Promissionis, Hodie Palæstinæ... Amsterdam, c.1705. Original colour. Two sheets conjoined, total 395 x 940mm.
A large and decorative map from Mortier's issue of Jaillot's 'Atlas Nouveau'. KOEMAN: Mor 1; LAOR: 25.

£800

412

[Palestine] CLOPPENBURG, Johannes.
Terra Sancta quæ in Sacris, Terra Promissiones Palestina. Amsterdam, 1630, French text edition. First Edition. 190 x 260mm. Fine impression.
The Holy Land, published in Cloppenburg's version of the Mercator 'Atlas Minor', probably engraved by Van den Keere. Not in LAOR; KOEMAN: Me 198

£220

413

[Palestine] SCREIBERN, Johann Georg.
Das Gelobte Land sammt der 40 Jærigen Reise de Kinder Israel aus Egypten. Leipzig, 1749. Original colour. 180 x 250mm. Paper lightly toned.
Published in the ' Atlas Selectus', orienteted with north to the right, with decorative cartouches for title and key. LAOR: 709.

£225

414

[Map of Palestine & the Holy Land] JAILLOT, Alexis Hubert.
Iudæa Seu Terra Sancta quæ Hebræorum sive Israelitarum in suas duodecim Tribus divisa... Paris, 1709, coloured, 460 x 650mm.
Map of the Holy Land drawn after Guillaume Sanson, divided into the twelve tribes of Israel on both sides of the Jordan, the shoreline running from Sidon to Gaza.This map features two beautiful rococo catouches, the one at the top left is flanked by Moses with the tablets of the law and Aaron with his scepter, the Ark of the Covenant is shown below surmounted by cherubim. The cartouche at the bottom right shows God the Father above clouds and flanked by different animals. LAOR 369.

£300

415

[Rare Prospect Of Jerusalem] PERAC, Stefano du.
'Ierusalem.' [Rome:] B.M., [ca. 1580]; 315 x 650mm. Inlaid for inclusion in a 'Lafreri-school' atlas of the period. One small area of paper thinness but a good dark impression.
Rare prospect of Jerusalem taken from a vantage point to the west of the city, drawn by the French architect Stefano du Perac, who lived and worked in Rome in the third quarter of the sixteenth century. The print bears the initals of the publisher 'B.M.' in the lower right corner. Laor: Maps of the Holy Land, 1016 (ill.)

£4,500

416

[Incunable Prospect of Jerusalem] SCHEDEL, D. Hartmann.
Destruccio Iherosolime. Nuremberg, Anton Kolberger, 1493, Latin edition. Woodcut, image 260 x 540mm, set in a page of text. A few small repairs to the centrefold, as usual.
An imaginary view of the Destruction of Jerusalem, with the Temple of Solomon on fire, from the famous 'Nuremberg Chronicle'. On verso are several more woodcut illustrations. LAOR: 1125, illus.

£1,400

417

[Jerusalem] MUNSTER, Sebastian.
Die heilege statt Jerusalem... Basle, c.1550. German text edition. Woodcut, image size 150 x 370mm, set in a page of text. A good dark impression.
Prospect of contemporary Jerusalem, with text beneath and on verso. LAOR: 1087.

£260

418

[Fine Panorama of Jerusalem] PROBST, George Balthasar.
Ierusalem, Hodierna. Published in Augsburg by "Haeres Jeremiae Wolff".Augsburg, c.1750. Two sheets conjoined, total 380 x 1110mm. Wide Margins. Trimmed into printed area at sides, false margins added.
Panorama of early C18th Jerusalem, with a 80-point key in German.

£2,400

419

[Jerusalem] BÜNTING, Heinrich.
Temploi Ierosolyminati et Vestibulorum Eius dem Pictura. Magdeburg, 1581-, Latin edition. Woodcut, printed area 285 x 390mm. Four worm holes, small repair to lower centrefold; old ink mss. correction to the pagination.
An elevation of the temple of Solomon. Not listed in Laor.

£150

420

[Jerusalem] CHÂTELAIN, Henri Abraham.
Vue et Description de Jerusalem. Amsterdam, 1719. Coloured. 385 x 495mm.
A prospect of Jerusalem, with five smaller views, all with engraved text boxes. LAOR: 985.

£450

421

[Jerusalem] ADRICHOM, Christiaan van.
Ierusalem et suburbia eius, sicut tempore Christi floruit... Köln, Jodocus Henricus Kramer, 1682. Two sheets conjoined, total 520 x 750mm. Narrow margins, as issued.
Jerusalem at the time of Christ, published in Adrichom's 'Theatrum Terræ Sanctæ', with vignette scenes of his life. LAOR: 935.

£1,800

422

[Uncommon Jansson Map of Syria & Lebanon] JANSSON, Jan.
Syriæ; Sive Soriæ. Nova et Accurata descriptio. Amsterdam: Heirs of Jan Jansson, 1666, Latin text. Original colour. 435 x 515mm.
The Lebanon & Syria. marking Beirut, Tripoli, Damascus, Antioch and Aleppo. As this map did not appear until 1658 it is comparatively scarce: this example was published in the 'Atlas Contractus', a two-volume atlas, issued two years after Jansson's death by his son-in-law, Jan Jansson van Waesbergen.

£725

423

[Panorama of Aleppo in Syria] DE BRUYN, Cornelis.
Aleppo. London, c.1702, engraving, 295 x 1030mmNarrow left margin, strong impression.A good example.
A fine panoramic print of the city of Aleppo in Syria
In 1675 the Dutch painter Cornelis de Bruyn (1652-1727) set out from Livorno on a journey through the Levant, publishing an richly illustrated account on his return which was called "A Voyage to the Levant".De Bruyn actually lived in Aleppo with merchants employed in the caravan trade, from May 1682 to April 1683, which explains why these traders are so prominent in the foreground of this print.

£575

424

[Syria] WEIGEL, Christoph.
Syria Propria cum Phoenice. Nuremberg, 1720. Original wash colour. 320 x 410mm.
Decorative map of Ancient Syria from the 'Orbis Antiquus', with vignettes showing old coins.

£120

425

[Syria, with Cyprus] LIEBAUX, Henri.
A Map of Syria. London, c.1730. Coloured. 215 x 285mm.
An English edition of the map drawn by Liebeaux for Eachard's History of 'Rome'.

£280

426

[A Map of Syria and the Holy Land in Hungarian] BENEDICTI, Hieronymus.
Syria (Sham). Budapest?, Geographiai Mertfoldok, c.1799. Original colour. 330 x 245mm.
Map of Syria, which includes Lebanon and Israel south to the Dead Sea, with a view of the classical ruins at Palmyra. Benedicti, the engraver, worked for Schraembl in Vienna.

£250

427

[Turkey and Syria] ANVILLE, Jean Baptiste B. D'.
Asiae, quae vulgo Minor dicitur, et Syriae tabula geographica. London, 1788. Old hand colour. 400 x 480mm. Backed on thin tissue.
Uncommon London derivative, published by John Harrison. With an inset of Hellespont and environs and of the Bosphorus.

£260

428

[The First Printed Map of Turkey] PTOLEMY, Claudius.
Prima Asiae Tabula. Rome: Petrus de Turre, 1478-90. Two sheets conjoined total 380 x 550mm. Trimmed to printed border on left, as issued. Some old ink mss. on map area.
Published in the second edition of Angelus & Caldarini's version of Ptolemy, first published 1478. This was the second version of Ptolemy's 'Cosmographia' to have printed maps; however the first version, published in Bologna in 1477, only showed Turkey on maps of other areas. Based on the work of Claudius Ptolemy of Alexandria, circa AD 160, it shows Turkey with classical details, within a trapesoid frame with the title just outside the top border. The map is indistinguishable from the first edition. An unusual feature of the series is the lettering, which is not engraved with a burin but stamped onto the plate. NORDENSKIÖLD COLLECTION: 197; SHIRLEY: World 4. "Many consider the Rome plates to be the finest Ptolemaic plates produced until Gerard Mercator engraved his classical world atlas of 1578".

£3,000

429

[The Fries Map of Ptolemaic Turkey in Contemporary Colour] WÄLDSEEMÜLLER, Martin.
[Tabula I Asiae.] Strassburg, Johannes Grüninger, 1525. Contemporary body colour. Woodcut, printed area 300 x 47mm. Four small wormholes.
An example of the Fries reduction of Wäldseemüller's map of Turkey, in scarce original colour. Originally intended not for a Ptolemy edition but for a new 'Chronica mundi' being written by Wäldseemüller, his death c.1520 caused the project to be shelved. The reduced woodcuts were used to publish a smaller sized and so cheaper edition of the 'Geography'. On verso is a text surrounded by woodcut columnar decorations.

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430

[Turkey & Egypt] ORTELIUS, Abraham.
Natoliae, quae olim Asia Minor, Nova Descriptio; Aegypti recentior descriptio; Carthaginis Celeberrimi Sinus Typus. Antwerp, Officina Plantiniana, 1612, Spanish text edition. Original colour. 325 x 485mm.
Three maps on one sheet: Turkey (orientated with north to the left, based on Gastaldi's map of 1564), Egypt and Tunis. VAN DEN BROECKE: 174

£400

431

[Miniature Map of Turkey] ORTELIUS, Abraham.
Ingiltera. Brescia: Pietro Marchetti, c.1598. Coloured. 75 x 110mm, set in text. Sheet trimmed.
Turkey & Cyprus, from an Italian pirate edition of Ortelius's Epitome, with a title outside the printed border. For some reason the map is orientated with north to the bottom of the map.

£150

432

[Turkey] HONDIUS, Henricus.
Natolia sive Asia Minor. Amsterdam: Heirs of Jan Jansson, 1666, Latin text. Original colour. 345 x 480mm.
Decorative map of Turkey with a fine strapwork cartouche. This example was published in the 'Atlas Contractus', a two-volume atlas, published two years after Jansson's death by his son-in-law, Jan Jansson van Waesbergen.

£380

433

[Ptolemaic Turkey] MERCATOR, Gerard.
Tab. I. Asiæ,in qua Galatia, Cappadocia, Pontus, Bithynia, Asia Minor, Pamphylia, Lycia, ac Cililcia. Utrecht, François Halma, c.1695. Coloured. 350 x 455mm.
First published 1578, this map comes from Mercator's edition of Ptolemy's 'Geography', with the maps updated to Mercator's Projection. This example is of the second state, with a new title cartouche replacing the original strapwork one.

£500

434

[Turkey, with Cyprus & the Ægean Islands] CLOPPENBURG, Johannes.
Natolia sive Asia Minor.. Amsterdam, 1630, French text edition. First Edition. 195 x 260mm. Very fine impression.
Published in Cloppenburg's version of the Mercator 'Atlas Minor', engraved by Van den Keere.

£150

435

[Classical Turkey, with Cyprus.] Anonymous.
Asia Minor. Italian?, c.1730. Coloured. 260 x 360mm.

£200

436

[Constantinople] PHILLIPS, Sir Richard.
Panorama Of Constantinople. R. Phillips, London, 1807, 165 x 280mm.
Showing a panoramic view across the Bosphorus, with selected landmarks named.

£80

437

[Constantinople] FER, Nicolas de.
Veue de la Ville et du Port de Constantinople. Paris, c.1700. 235 x 335mm. Dark Impression and wide margins.
Prospect of Constantinople from above the Scutari. Plate No 107 in top right corner.

£260

438

[Prospect of Constantinople] MERIAN, Mattheus.
Constantinoplis. Frankfurt, c.1650. Two sheets conjoined, as issued, total 230 x 690mm.
A fine dark impression of this detailed copper engraving prospect of Constantinople, with a 30-point key.

£1,200

439

[Showing Cyprus] BRUÉ, Adrien Hubert..
Carte Générale de l'Asie Mineure, De L'Armenie, De La Syrie, de la Mésopotamie, du Caucase &a.. Paris, 1822. Original colour. Steel engraving, 380 x 530mm.. Excellent condition.
A very fine and detailed map with frontiers delineated in original colour, showing Turkey east to the Caspian Sea and part of the Mediterannean coast of the Middle East, with the Holy Land and Cyprus shown..

£220

440

[Unusual Sea Chart of the Dardanelles] GARCIA, Joseph.
Plano del Canal de Los Dardanelos que comprende desde las Islas Tenedos, Imbro y Conejos hasta el Mar de Marmara. Spanish, c.1820. 540 x 860mm.
Chart of the channel between the Ægean and the Sea of Marmara, marking the formidable defences with which the Turks controlled entrance to the Black Sea. The two profiles, one showing Gallipoli, are dated 1817 and 1818. Garcia is not listed in Tooley's Dictionary.

£650