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Auction 159, Lot 610

"Nuova Carta del Regno di Persia", Tirion, Isaac

Subject: Persia - Iran

Period: 1744 (circa)

Publication:

Color: Hand Color

Size:
14.3 x 11.5 inches
36.3 x 29.2 cm
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This beautifully and boldly engraved copper plate map covers the region from western Turkey and Arabia through present-day Afghanistan and Pakistan. Features fortified cities, cities, towns, rivers and topography. Decorated by a simple block-style title cartouche with three distance scales.

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Condition: A

Clean and bright with professionally repaired centerfold separations that just enter the map border at top and bottom.

Estimate: $230 - $275

Unsold

Closed on 9/14/2016

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