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Antique Maps of the Middle East, Arabia & Persia. Gallery of authentic historic & rare maps of the Middle East, Arabia, Persia, & the Holy Land, 16th- 19th centuries.

Antique Maps of China, Japan and Korea. Gallery of authentic historic and rare maps of China, Japan, Korea (Corea) from the 16th to the 19th centuries.

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BurmahSiamShan-sharbaumilne-1886 $400.00 Title   1886 (dated)         1 : 844800 Description This is an 1886 Henry Sharbau and H. A. Milne map of Burma (Myanmar) and Thailand. The map focuses on northern Thailand (Siam) and the railroad proposed by civil engineer Holt S. Hallett (1841 - 1911) and his associate Archibald Colquhoun (pronounced kuhl-HOON.) It was created to accompany a paper Hallett presented to the Royal Geographical Society. Red lines trace Halletts explorations, sco...

  1875 (dated)         1 : 554400 Description This is an 1875 Herbert William Wood map of the Khanate of Khiva in modern-day Uzbekistan - issued shortly after the 1873 Russian conquest of Khiva, a defining moment in the Great Game. Coverage extends from the southern coast of the Aral Sea (Lake Aral) south to the Kharesmian Desert. Great attention is paid to the all-important regional river network, particularly the Amu Darya (Oxus). Cities, towns, and villages are labeled, along with...

RussianChineseFrontier-murray-1861 $575.00 Title Map of Russian and Chinese Frontier Illustrating the Journey of Semenof to the Tian-Shan Mounts. and R. Jaxartes and Golubofs Issyk-kul Expedition.   1861 (dated)         1 : 2112000 Description This is an 1861 John Murray map of Central Asia tracing Pyotr Semyonovs (1827 - 1914) first European ascent into the Tian Shan Mountains. The map depicts the region from Lake Balkash south to the Tian Shan Mountains, encompassing modern-day Kyr...

  1840 (dated)         1 : 20000 Description This is an example of David Burrs rare 1840 map of Manhattan, New York City. Burrs map is one of the earliest maps focused specifically on Manhattan to illustrate the entire island. Oriented to the northeast, the map roughly follows the layout and design of the 1811 Commissioners Plan, wherein the geography of the island is sublimated by the citys iconic street grid. Burrs more commercial map also extends the coverage further east and west...

National Gallery, London Much has been written about John Constable’s success at the Paris Salon of 1824, but his participation in the next Salon of 1827–8 has received far less attention. This relative neglect is perhaps not so surprising, given that the single painting he exhibited, The Cornfield 1826 (fig.1), did not repeat his earlier triumph. The same Salon at which Constable met with a critical setback, however, also marked the debut of Paul Huet, the artist usually regarded as his c...

CentralAsia-turner-1878-2 $1,350.00 Title Map of Central Asia to accompany the Paper by Captain H. Trotter R.E., on the Geographical Results of Sir T.D. Forsyths Mission to Kashgar, 1873 - 74.   1878 (dated)         1 : 2000000 Description This is an 1878 William John Turner and Royal Geographical Society map of Xinjiang, China that traces explorations of the Forsyth Mission of 1873 - 1874, making this one of the first detailed Western maps of the region. The map depicts the region f...