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Vienna, 1789. Copper engraving, 41.5 x 61 cms, some original outline colour, light marginal waterstaining, blank verso. Yemen and the Red Sea, following the detailed maps by German traveller Carsten Niebuhr, the sole survivor of the Danish Arabia Expedition of the 1760s and creator of the first accurate western surveys of the region. Map

Paris, chez Cré: py, 1767. Copper engraving, 21.5 x 28 cm, inset of Algeria  (in continuation of the map west), original hand colour, very light ofsetting of the red in lower part of the map, blank verso. First published in 1748, this edition of Le Rouge’s map was reissued under the imprint of Jean Baptiste Crépy (fl. 1753-1790), scion of a modest publishing dynasty, who was also known as Crépy le jeune. Cf. Tibbetts, Arabia in Early Maps, 276. Map

Paris, c. 1768. Copper engraving, 49.5 x 62.5 cm, inset ‘Carte de la Terre de Canaan’, original hand colour, blank verso. Second state of Robert de Vaugondy’s Old Testament map of the Holy Land. The map is still dated 1750, but the peninsula of Seboim has been added in the Dead Sea. Pedley, Bel et Utile: the Work of the Robert de Vaugondy Family of Mapmakers, 393 (2). Map

Paris, 1920. French naval chart, 63 x 91.5 cms, black and white with beacons highlighted in yellow, insets of Port d’Abri (the inner harbour at modern day Izmir) and two coastal profiles, slightly dusty lower margin, one or two closed marginal tears, blank verso. Engraved in 1866 after British charts by Copeland and Spratt, this example of the map was printed in September 1920 during the Greek occupation of the Zone of Smyrna, part of the territory awarded to Greece at the expense of the Ottoman Empire by the Allied powers after the Great War. Smyrna became an important base for Greek forces during the resulting Greco-Turkish War of 1919-1922, and in the bloody aftermath of the Greek withdrawal half the city was razed in the Great Fire of Smyrna, also known as the Smyrna Catastrophe. Map

Antwerp, Plantin-Moretus, 1595. Copper engraving, 32 x 49 cms, three maps on one sheet: Anatolia or modern Turkey, Egypt, Tunis and ancient Carthage; modern hand colour, conjugate wormhole at centrefold, Latin text on verso. An engraved historical note on the map of Carthage indicates that nearby Tunis, which is the focus of the map, was captured for Christendom by the Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain Charles V in 1535. A version of the truth perhaps, as Charles reinstated the deposed Hafsid Sultan but a Spanish governor resided at Goletta for a generation. The map was first published in 1570, just after the city had fallen into Ottoman hands, and although it was briefly recaptured Tunis had been Ottoman for 20 years by the time our example of the map was published. Van den Broecke 174.2 Map

London, 1788. Copper engraving, 52.5 x 26.5 cms, after Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville, black and white, blank verso. Map

Nuremberg, 1750. Copper engraving, 50.5 x 57.5 cms, original hand-colour, French title in upper margin, blank verso. The inset shows the region in classical antiquity while the cartouche shows both faces of a shekel and the Jewish encampment in the Desert of Paran; in the foreground two of Moses’s spies, presumably Joshua and Caleb, return from Canaan bearing a large bunch of grapes, symbolising the richness of the country. Laor, Maps of the Holy Land, 325 Map

London: Charles Knight, c. 1840. Steel engraving, 33 x 38 cms, original hand colour, with black and white panoramic view of Parma at the foot, blank verso. The Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge was founded in 1826 with the high-minded aim of making 'useful' information available to self-taught members of the working and lower middle classes. Some of the material was decidedly abstruse, subscribers fell away and the Society was wound up in 1848; however, the series of 209 maps published over a 14 year period from 1829 onwards were highly praised for their superior quality, accuracy and aesthetic appeal and remain an outstanding achievement. Map

London, 1929. Folding lithographed map, sheet size 54 x 65.5 cm, printed in colours, blank verso, small stain by the ‘s’ of ‘Trans Caspia’, a couple of short splits along the folds, folding into yellow stiff card wrappers; part of the Authentic Imperial Maps series published by the London Geographical Institute, with publisher’s advertisements to pastedown. Map

Padua, 1621. Copper engraving, 13.8 x 17.8 cms, black and white, a couple of trival stains, set within letterpress (Cernoti’s Italian translation of Magini’s text) on larger sheet, 29 x 21 cms. This is Magini’s ‘modern’ map of Persia rather than his Ptolemaic map; according to Alai the pagination corresponds with the 1621 Padua printing, which follows the Venetian edtion of 1598. Map

Paris, 1683. Copper engraving, 14.5 x 10.5 cms, recent hand-colour, light waterstaining in upper margin, French text on verso, from Mallet’s ‘Description de l’Univers’. Map

Paris, Denys Thierry, 1683. Copper engraving, 15.5 x 11 cms, black and white, French text on verso; plan of Constantinople, from Mallet’s ‘Description de l’Univers’, first published in Paris in 1683 and reprinted with German text in Frankfurt the following year. Mallet was a military engineer, cartographer and mathematician in the service of the French King, Louis XIV. Map

Genoa: Yves Gravier, 1804. Copper engraving, 14.5 x 20 cms, black and white as issued, blank verso. Tyre, Lebanon. Map

Basel: Officina Henricpetrina,, 1575. Woodcut, 20 x 37.7 cms, engraved by David Kandel, initialled lower right, modern hand colour, one or two marginal nicks and tears; bird’s eye view of Constantinople from the east, published in the second Italian text edition of Münster's Cosmographia. A compendium of topographical information, folklore and travels, the Cosmographia was first published with a modest 26 maps in 1544, mostly borrowed from his Ptolemy of 1540. A substantial enlargement took place in 1550, and after Münster's death in 1552 his step-son, Heinrich Petri (and his son, Sebastian), continued to revise and augment the work. A major revision took place in 1588, replacing some of the original maps with new examples following those in Ortelius' Theatrum; in the 1590s improved town plans were added, following the accurate examples in Braun and Hogenberg's Civitates Orbis Terrarum, so that by the last edition of 1628 the work had swollen to include over 260 maps… Leer más

Antwerp, Johann Baptist Vrients, 1601. Copper engraving, 7.5 x 11 cms, black and white, Latin text on verso. Sicily, from the second series of maps engraved by Philip Galle for the Epitome, the pocket atlas version of Ortelius’ Theatrum. Koeman, Atlantes Neerlandici, Ort 58 Map

Amsterdam, c. 1700. Copper engraving, 43.5 x 52 cms, original hand colour, trivial waterstaining to the outer margins, not approaching the printed area; blank verso. Petrus Schenk and Gerard Valk often worked in partnership, towards the end of the Dutch Golden Age, when the United Provinces still led Europe in the field of map-making. Together they purchased the surviving copper printing plates of the famous Janssonius firm, among others, and reissued them under their own imprint. This map, covering the region of Syria in antiquity, was originally issued by Janssonius in the late 1650s. Map

Paris, 1683. Copper engraving, 15 x 11.5 cms, recent hand-colour, French text on verso, from Mallet’s ‘Description de l’Univers’. Map

Vienne, Gaspar Treschel, 1541. Woodcut, 30 x 46 cms, black and white, slight toning at centrefold, Latin text on verso; a Ptolemaic map of Asia Minor. Lorenz Fries' slightly reduced versions of Martin Waldseemüller’s maps were engraved for a new edition of Ptolemy’s Geographia published by the Strasbourg printer Johann Grüninger in 1522 and 1525; after Grüninger’s death the blocks passed to the Treschel brothers, Melchior and Gaspar, who reprinted them in Lyons with a revised text in 1535. The revisions to Wilibald Pirkheimer’s translation were made by the polymath Spanish theologian, physician and humanist Michael Servetus, also known as Michel de Villeneuve, who was burned for heresy in Geneva in 1553. Our example is from the final edtion, published by Gaspar Treschel alone in Vienne, Isère, to be sold by Hugues de la Porte in Lyons. Map

Amsterdam, 1659. Copper engraving, 46.5 x 57 cms, original hand colour, blank verso. Visscher’s influential map of the Holy Land, oriented to the West and divided among the Tribes on both sides of the Jordan, was published by Visscher and his heirs for some years, and was the model for many subsequent maps of the region, by De Wit, Danckerts and others. In the foreground Visscher depicts the encampment of the Tribes of Israel in the desert with the Tabernacle at their centre, flanked the figures of Moses and Aaron. Laor, Maps of the Holy Land, 793 Map

Copenhagen, c. 1772. Copper engraving, 59 x 39.5 cms, engraved by Defehrt after Martin, modern hand-colour, blank verso; engraved in Copenhagen in 1771, our example is from one of the original Copenhagen editions of Niebuhr’s account of his travels published in 1772-1773, rather the Amsterdam editions of 1774 onwards. Niebuhr was the sole survivor of the Royal Danish Arabia Expedition of 1761-1767, and this is the earliest reliable, detailed printed map of Yemen. Map