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Original publisher's hand-colored map of Assyria and surrounding countries. The depicted region includes modern-day Turkey, Armenia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, Russia, Iran, Kuwait, Iraq, and Syria. The following are some of the ancient regions labeled on the map: Assyria, Media, Babylonia, Chaldaea, Susiana, Mesopotamia, Armenia, Albania, Colchis, and Iberia. The map features beautiful watercolored outlines in blue, green, pink, and yellow around country or regional borders. Major cities and natural features such as mountains and rivers are shown. In three of the corners are the Pontus Euxinus (Black Sea), Mare Caspium (Caspian Sea), and Persicus Sinus (Persian Gulf). Scales of distance in Greek stadia and Roman and English miles included. No date, circa 1836-1851. Map with margins measures 13 1/4" x 10"; actual map area measures 11 1/2" x 8 3/8." Map is very clean and intact except for slight foxing. The center fold line is original as this map originally came from an atlas. Lines of latitude and longitude also included. The following is printed beneath the map: "Philadelphia, Blanchard & Lea." and "Eng. by G. E. Sherman, N.Y." "22." printed in lower-right corner outside of the neatline. Blanchard & Lea (fl. c. 1836-1851) was a Philadelphia-based publishing house and successor to Matthew Carey & Company. George E. Sherman was an American map engraver based in New York and co-founder of the publishing firm, Sherman & Smith or Stiles, Sherman & Smith (fl. c. 1829-1855). Seller Inventory # 020304
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