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Auction 143, Lot 688
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"Imperii Persici in Omnes suas Provincias…", Homann, Johann Baptist

Subject: Persia & the Caucasus

Period: 1730 (circa)

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Color: Hand Color

Size:
23 x 19.2 inches
58.4 x 48.8 cm
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This striking map of the Persian Empire includes present-day Iran, Iraq, Armenia, Georgia, Afghanistan, and part of Pakistan. Two large pictorial cartouches graphically depict the cultural attainments of the empire. The map is filled with detail of towns, mountains, forests, caravan routes, and a quaint village scene is pictured in the Turkistan region.

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Condition: B+

Original color on watermarked paper with a long centerfold separation at bottom that has been archivally repaired and an old paper repair in left blank margin.

Estimate: $275 - $350

Sold for: $160

Closed on 2/13/2013

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