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Map Of Persia, Turkey In Asia, Afghanistan, Beloochistan, S. Augustus Mitchell Dec 1859

Map Of Persia, Turkey In Asia, Afghanistan, Beloochistan, S. Augustus Mitchell

Documents and Reports

Scale [ca. 1:13,600,000], (E 25°--E 75°/N 45°00--N 20°00).

Notes: Relief shown by hachures.

Prime meridians: Greenwich and Washington.

"Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1860 by S. Augustus Mitchell Jr. in the clerk's office of the district court of the U.S. for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania."

Inset map: Palestine or the Holy Land. Scale [ca. 1:4,200,000].

Page 70 from a Mitchell atlas, perhaps Mitchell's new general atlas of 1860.

University of Nebraska Omaha Notes: Shows towns, tribes, roads, rivers, mountains, lakes, etc.


Jran, Turan, Persien, Afghanistan, Beludschistan, Turkestan, Carl Christian Franz Radefeld, Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig Dec 1845

Jran, Turan, Persien, Afghanistan, Beludschistan, Turkestan, Carl Christian Franz Radefeld, Bibliographisches Institut Leipzig

Documents and Reports

Hildburghausen : Bibliographisches Jnstituts zu Hildburghausen, 1846.

Scale [ca. 1:9,500,000], (E 43°20ʹ--E 78°20ʹ/N 47°00ʹ--N 23°00ʹ).

Relief shown by hachures and spot heights.

Prime meridian: Ferro.

"Meyer's-Handatlas No. 100."

University of Nebraska Omaha Notes: Detailed map of the region extending from the Persian Gulf and Caucasia to Tartaria, centered on Iran, Afganistan, Irak, Kurdistan, etc.


Persia Arabia Tartary & Afghanistan, T. G. Bradford, J. H. Young Dec 1827

Persia Arabia Tartary & Afghanistan, T. G. Bradford, J. H. Young

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Publication: [Philadelphia, Pennsylvania?] : [John Grigg?], [1828?]

Physical Description:1 map : hand colored ; 25 x 21 cm, on sheet 29 x 24 cm

Cartographic Mathematical Data: Scale approximately 1:20,000,000, (E 32°19ʹ00ʺ--E 73°02ʹ00ʺ/N 51°56ʹ00ʺ--N 9°47ʹ00ʺ).

Notes: Shows Persia and covers from Suez east to the Gulf of Cambay and India and from Siberia south to the Gulf of Aden. Includes modern day nations of Saudia Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Iran, Afghanistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan along with parts of Pakistan and Kazakhstan. Noted are Ruins of Persepolis and the Ruins of Babylon. Also included are some towns, rivers, mountains, islands and various …


Persia, John Speed, Pieter Van Den Keere Jan 1676

Persia, John Speed, Pieter Van Den Keere

Documents and Reports

Publication: [London] : [printed for Tho. Basset at the George in Fleet-street, and Ric. Chiswel at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard], [1676]

Physical Description: 1 map ; 9 x 12 cm on sheet 10 x 16 cm

More Author / Title Information: P. Kærius cælavit.

Cartographic Mathematical Data: Scale shown as ratio to "German Com Myll" (i.e. German common mile), a measure which varied across different times and regions. The conversion to modern miles is undetermined. Approximately 1.7 cm represents 100 German common miles.

Notes: Engraved by Pieter Van Den Keere.

Leaf may have been separated from …


Asia, Jodocus Hondius, Pieter Van Den Keere Dec 1629

Asia, Jodocus Hondius, Pieter Van Den Keere

Documents and Reports

[Amsterdam?] : [publisher not identified], [between 1630 and 1636?]

Physical Description: 1 map : color ; 26 x 19 cm

Notes: Hand-colored.

Relief shown pictorially.

Text in Latin.

Identified by cataloger as possibly being the miniature version of the map of Asia by Jodocus Hondius, engraved by Pieter Van Den Keere, as it appeared in Johannes Cloppenburg's edition of Gerhard Mercator's Atlas Minor, engraved in a slightly larger format than the standard Dutch pocket atlases of the time. This version of the map was first published in 1630 and appearing in editions until 1636, then not appearing in print again …


Tabvla Asiae Vii, Giovanni Antonion Magini, Ptolemy Dec 1595

Tabvla Asiae Vii, Giovanni Antonion Magini, Ptolemy

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Publication: [Agrippinensium Colonia?] : [Excudebat Petrus Keschedt?], [1597?]

Physical Description: 1 map ; 14 x 18 cm, on sheet 17 x 23 cm

Language: Latin

Cartographic Mathematical Data: Scale not given, (E 49°35ʹ--E 82°05ʹ/N 43°33ʹ--N 26°01ʹ).

Notes: Ptolemaic map covering central Asia, including the Persian Gulf, Caspian Sea, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and India.

Relief shown pictorially.

Uncolored.

Copper-plate map.

Verso is page 22 of an unidentified text in Latin, with heading: Asiae Tabvla VI.

Taken from an early edition of Giovanni Antonio Magini's Ptolemy's Geographia, tentatively identified as: Ptolemy. Geographiae vniuersae tum veteris, tum nouae abolutissimum opus, duobus voluminibus districtum. …