Auction 80 - Part I - Jewish and Israeli History, Art and Culture

Collection of Maps – The Middle East and Palestine – Europe, 18th- 19th Centuries

Opening: $300
Sold for: $375
Including buyer's premium
19 maps of the Middle East, Turkey and Palestine (most of them partly hand-colored), engravings from atlases, travelogues and other works. [Europe, the 18th- 19th centuries].
Including:
• "Carte de la Turquie de l'Arabie et de la Perse," an engraved map of the Ottoman Empire, Arabia, and Persia, by Guillaume Delisle (Paris, 1701).
• "Das Mittellaendische Meer Zu Bequaemen Gebrauch In Einer General Carten vorgestellet", map of the Middle East, hand-colored engraving, from "Atlas Curieux" by Gabriel Bodenehr (Augsburg, 1716).
• "Nuova Carta di Irak Arabi, Kurdistan Dirbek Turcomannia Siria e Palestina", map of the Middle East and Palestine, hand-colored engraving, from "Atlante novissimo, che contiene tutte le parti del mondo" (Venice: Giambatista Albrizzi, 1740).
• "Imperium Arabicum, Saracenicum, Muhamedicum Primarium pro statu ante divisionem quadripartitam", map of the Arab Empire (hand-colored engraving), by Johann Matthias Hase (Nürnberg, ca. mid-18th century).
• "Arabie, Mer Rouge, et Golfe Persique", map of Arabia, the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf, hand-colored engraving, from "Atlas Encyclopedique" by Rigobert Bonne (Paris, 1788).
• "La Turchia d'Asia, Che comprende l'Anatolia, la Giorgia, l'Armenia, il Curdistan, il Diarbec, l'Irak-Arabia, la Siria &c", map of Turkey and neighboring countries, hand-colored engraving (Venice: Antonio Zatta, e Figli, 1784).
• "Tableau de la dispersion des peuples jusqu'au temps de Moïse", map of the Mediterranean Basin, hand-colored engraving, by Adrien Hubert Brué (1821).
• "Mittel- und Nord-Africa und Arabien. Östliches Blatt", map of central-north Africa and Arabia (hand-colored engraving), by Adolf Stieler (Gotha, Germany: Justus Perthes, 1830).
• And more.
Size and condition vary. Good-fair overall condition.
Early Manuscripts, Bibles, Maps, Travelogues, Prints
Early Manuscripts, Bibles, Maps, Travelogues, Prints