Ottoman cartography (2 Ergebnisse)

No Binding. Zustand: Very Good. Reprint. A Facsimilie of a seventeenth century Ottoman map drawn in pen and ink and water-colour wash on eight sheets of paper approximately 430 x 343 cm each, joined in a strip, printed on acid-free paper, light foxing, otherwise in very good condition. A highly important facsimile of a seventeenth century manuscript map of Central Asia, Iraq, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Mecca, and the Arab Gulf. It depict watercourses, mountain ranges, ports, cities, castles, religious sites, and caravan routes, extending from the Yemen in the South to Western Arabia, including the Holy city of Makkah, through the Strait of Hormuz, up the Gulf, the Euphrates and the Tigris via Abadan, Basrah, Baghdad, Mosul, Aleppo and Erzerum. #36028.…

207 x 177 mm each, colour-printed. A set of two maps removed from an Ottoman atlas published shortly before the Great War. The first map shows the Near East, Egypt and Northern Arabia with the Hejaz Railroad's branches as completed by 1911. Diagrams in the margin depict the elevation of the railroad along its line. The second map shows the Arabian Peninsula and its railroads; an inset shows the Suez Canal (with the date of its completion given as 1869 CE and 1285 Rumi calendar). - A soft central fold and tiny edge tears. Traces of former tab-mounting within an atlas; handwritten Ottoman Turkish titles in black ink on verso.…