Arrowsmith a Aron (3 results)

Large engraved map (overall c.1230 x 1450 cm) with original outline hand-colour, dissected into 36 panels joined on 4 sheets, backed onto linen with pale blue silked edges, contained in original marbled paper covered chemise and matching calf-backed slipcase, with paper label of D'Artaria & Compagnie, rue Kohlmarky, no.1219, Vienne, Magasin de Cartes Geographiques pasted to verso of map and similarly lettered in gilt to slipcase spine, Some offsetting most noticeable at the decorative cartouche on NW section, generally a very nice clean and fresh copy beautifully presented. From the Arabian Gulf in the West, to the Philippines in the southeast, the Arctic circle in the north and the Ceylon in the south. Earliest edition of this wall map, the most accurate map of Asia published at the beginning of the 19th century. It shows significant advancement compared with other maps of the period, incorporating the work of surveyors like James Rennell, to whom the map was dedicated. Rennell was surveyor-general of the East India Company's dominions in Bengal, and the information published in his "Bengal Atlas" in 1779 appears here. Arrowsmith also included remarkable topographical detail such as mountain ranges in regions as remote as Tibet. Remarkably, the region on the shore of the Arabian Gulf is already labelled as "Bani Yas" territory. Arrowsmith has marked the track of Lapérouse's voyage in the Indian Ocean and Far East.

Folio. 27 num. Doppelblätter, mit insgesamt 53 gest. mit handkolorierten Karten. Halbpergament d. 19. Jh. mit Rückenschild. Jede Karte (ausser der letzten, ist doppel vorhanden, einmal mit englischen, einmal mit lateinischen Namen, i.e. Eastern Hemisphere, Europe, Asia, Africa, Great Britain and Ireland, England and Wales, Northern Germany, Southern Germany, France and the Natherlands, Spain and Portugal, North Italy, Central Italy, South Italy, Northern Turkey in Europe, Northern Greece, Southern Greece, Candia and the Archipelago, Asia Minor, Syria, Southern Syria, the Countries between the Caucasus and Euphrates, Arabia, Persia, India and the Birman Empire, Northern Africa, Egypt, Western Hemisphere. - Leicht gebräunt, einige Leimspuren in den Rändern. Rücken und Einband berieben. Leicht gebräunt und fleckig. + Wichtig: Für unsere Kunden in der EU erfolgt der Versand alle 14 Tage verzollt ab Deutschland / Postbank-Konto in Deutschland vorhanden +.

Beautiful engraved map with contemporary hand-coloring measuring approx. 32" x 26" in mat and approx. 42 x 36" in handsome and appropriate frame. Shows inset of Crete at the lower left, and includes also Albania, Bulgaria, Romania, the western parts of Turkey and all of the Greek Archipelago.