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Nieuwe Kaart van Arabia

Tirion, I.
Nieuwe Kaart van Arabia, 1732
11.5 x 14.25 in.
Original color.
Very Good.
 
Nicely engraved map of Arabia, including part of Egypt, the Holy Land, Iraq and Iran. The peninsula of Qatar is omitted, whereas other included coastal features are fictitious or exaggerated, e.g., the small peninsula jutting into the Red Sea below Jeddah. Various regions are identified, including the two main regions of “Happy Arabia” (or Yemen) and Desert Arabia. The former is oversized, covering almost a third of the peninsula. The topography is similarly inaccurate, showing a network of mountains across the entire peninsula, rather than coastal ranges. An extraordinary number of settlements are shown, including those in the desert regions, though some locations are clearly speculative. The errors are typical in maps of Arabia before the more rigorous cartography of d’Anville and extensive survey work commenced in the latter part of the 18th century. The map includes roads or travel routes running east-west from Basra to the Hejaz and north-south from Aleppo to Mocha. An interesting example of Dutch cartography in its post-Golden Age.
 
Price: $400
 
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