"Carte de Perse Dressee puor l'Usage du Roy", Delisle, Guillaume

This handsome map of the region is one of the more important maps in the evolution of cartography in the Persian Gulf in the eighteenth century. The map stretches from the Caucasus through Afghanistan and from the Arabian Desert to the Indus River, and shows a new, still developing shape. The map is filled with impressive detail including roads, bridges, forts, cities, villages, watering places and much else of interest. Finely engraved by P. Starckman with his imprint at lower right.

References: Couto, Bacque-Grammont & Taleghani #72.

Condition: B+

A dark impression on a bright sheet with contemporary outline color and deckled edges. There is light offsetting along the centerfold, a printer's crease at bottom center, and a couple of short edge tears that have been archivally repaired.