Middle East

This map of Tehran features a legend in the borders listing 218 places of interest in the pre-Revolutionary city. The mapmaker’s own premises are i...

Chorographia Terrae Sanctae in angustiorem formam redacta, et ex variis auctoribus a multibus erroribus expurgata This map of the Holy Land, after ...

Théâtre de la Guerre: Carte de l’Empire Ottoman en Europe et en Asie With an inset of Sevastopol, our map covers the region at the outbreak of the ...

Carte de la Coste d’Arabie, Mer Rouge, et Golfe de Perse. A map of the Arabian peninsula. Jacques Nicolas Bellin the elder (1703-1772) was first ch...

Carte de L’Arabie, du Golfe Persique et de la Mer Rouge, avec L’Egypte, La Nubie et L’Abissinie This map of Arabia was published in an Italian edit...

This map of Persia, Afghanistan and Balochistan is part of the Authentic Imperial Maps series published by the London Geographical Institute. Condi...

La Judée ou Terre Sainte, divisée en ses douze Tribus This is the second state of Robert de Vaugondy’s Old Testament map of the Holy Land. The map ...

Het Beloofde Landt Canaan door wandelt van onfen Salichmaeker Iesu Christo, nessens syne Apostelen Oriented to the west, this map of the Holy Land ...

Karte von dem groessten theil des landes Jemen, Imame, Kaukeban &. &. […] This map of Yemen and the Red Sea follows the detailed maps by Ge...

L’Empire des Turcs First published in 1748, this edition of Le Rouge’s map of the Turkish Empire was reissued under the imprint of Jean Baptiste Cr...

European Dominions of the Ottomans, or Turkey in Europe Greece had become an independent nation after the war of 1821-30, but most other Balkan sta...

This map of the Black Sea has been updated to show the 300 miles of submarine telegraph cable laid between Varna and Balaclava by Robert Stirling N...

This view of Constantinople isfrom Mallet’s Description de l’Univers, first published in Paris in 1683 and reprinted with German text in Frankfurt ...

This plan of Constantinople is from Mallet’s Description de l’Univers, first published in Paris in 1683 and reprinted with German text in Frankfurt...

Constantinopoli / Descrittione di Constantinopoli First published in 1572, our example of Porcacchi’s map of Constantinople is from the second edit...

This map of Ancient Jerusalem is from Mallet’s Description de l’Univers, first published in Paris in 1683 and reprinted with German text in Frankfu...

This sea chart shows the environs of Marmara Island on the southern coast of the Sea of Marmara, Turkey. The practical pocket sea atlas by Marseill...

The practical pocket sea atlas by Marseilles hydrographer Joseph Roux, charting the ports and harbours of the Mediterranean, remained popular half ...

A sea chart of Foça, Turkey; near Smyrna. The practical pocket sea atlas by Marseilles hydrographer Joseph Roux, charting the ports and harbours of...

Carte de L’Arabie, du Golfe Persique et de la Mer Rouge, avec L’Egypte, La Nubie et L’Abissinie This map of Arabia is from the Atlas de Toutes Part...

Albanie, Grand Armenie, Colchide et Iberie selon les anciens This map of the Ancient Caucasus is from Mallet’s Description de l’Univers. Condition ...

Condition & Materials  Copper engraving, 14.5 x 10.5 cm, recent hand-colour, light waterstaining in upper margin, French text on verso, from Ma...

Condition & Materials  Copper engraving, 15 x 10.5 cm, recent hand-colour, French text on verso, from Mallet’s Description de l’Univers.

Chapelle du St Sepulchre de N.S. Jesus Christ à Jerusalem The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem, from Mallet’s Description de l’Univers. Cond...

Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 52.5 x 26.5 cm; a chart of the Caspian Sea after Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville, black and white, ...

Terra Sancta, sive Promissionis, olim Palestina recens delineata, et in lucem edita per Nicolaum Visscher… Visscher’s influential map of the Holy L...

Jerusalem, cum suburbiis, prout tempore Christi floruit, accurate notatis omnibus insgnibus et praecipuè iis locis, in quibis Christus passus est e...

Tabula Prima Asiae continet Pontum, Bithyniam, Asiae propriae dictam, in qua Phyrgia Lyciam Pamphiliam, in qua Pisidia, Galatiam, in qua Paphlagoni...

In the margin to the left of this map is an incomplete list of sultans of the Ottoman Empire. The map was published in Wagner’s ‘Delineatio Provinc...

Lower Egypt and the Adjacent Deserts with a part of Palestine; to which has been added the Nomenclature of the Roman Age… This map of of Egypt and ...

Syriae sive Soriae, nova et accurata descriptio Petrus Schenk and Gerard Valk often worked in partnership, towards the end of the Dutch Golden Age,...

Mer Méditerranée – Port de Smyrne This French naval chart of Smyrna includes insets of Port d’Abri (the inner harbour at modern day Izmir) and two ...

Natoliae quae olim Asia Minor nova descriptio / Aegypti recentior descriptio / Carthaginis celeberrimi sinus typus Here on one sheet we have three ...

Indsicher Ozean – Golf von Aden – Ansteuerung von Aden This German naval chart of Aden shows breakwaters and lights highlighted in colour. It detai...

Chart of the South East Coast of Arabia from Ras Sukra to Palinurus Shoal, compiled from trigonometric Surveys First published in 1860 with correct...

Terrae Yemen maxima Pars seu Imperii Imami, Principatus Kaukebân, nec non ditionum Haschid u Bekîl, Nehhm, Chaulân, Abu Arîsch Et Aden, Tabula ex o...