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Auction: 15040 - Antique Maps sale during the International Exhibition
Lot: 152

Maps
Middle East
Persia
1634 Persia Sive Sophorum Regnum, by Willem Janszoon Blaeu; 24 x 20 inches, hand-coloured.

A decorative map of Persia extending from the Eastern Mediterranean to Tacalistan and the Indus River and the Dalanguer Mtns and the Cbul Region, with the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf in the South and Caspian and Tartaria in the North. A very detailed and highly decorative map, with dedication cartouche to Theodor Tholng, senator in Amsterdam with coat of arms above, decorative title cartouche features a Persian sovereign and two soldiers, and sailing ships. French text on verso.

On stout paper, there are a few surface thins in the margins and very light soiling. Photo

Estimate
SG$1,000 to SG$1,200