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Antique Map Auction Sale No. 127 - closed 2/25/2009

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Lot #696: "The Kingdome of Persia with the cheef Citties and Habites described" John Speed

Antique map chart The Kingdome of Persia with the cheef Citties and Ha
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Estimate:
$1,500.00 - $1,800.00
Sold for: $1,100.00

Lot 696
By: John Speed
Subject: Persia - Iran
Date: 1676

Publication: A Prospect of the Most Famous Parts of the World

Condition: B+
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Color: hand color

Size: 20.5 x 15.5 inches
52.1 x 39.4 cm

Vignettes of Isfahan, Hormuz, Tabris, and Tehran flank the title cartouche of the fine carte-de-figures map of the Persian Empire. The side panels illustrate the social hierarchy of Persian society with superb illustrations of a nobleman, citizen, countryman and Turks with their respective female partners. The English text on the verso has a description of the region, people and history as seen through eyes of a Jacobian English historian. Engraved by Abraham Goos and published by Bassett and Chiswell.

A sharp impression with attractive pale coloring. There are expert repairs of a short tear into the county woman at right, a minor fold separation at bottom and some restored paper in the top margin. All repairs are very skillfully done.

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