Aaron Arrowsmith
Monumental wall map of Iran, 1813
39 x 51 in
99 x 130 cm
99 x 130 cm
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Map of the Countries lying between the Euphrates and Indus on the East and West, and the Oxus and Terek and Indian Ocean on the North and South. Monumental...
Map of the Countries lying between the Euphrates and Indus on the East and West, and the Oxus and Terek and Indian Ocean on the North and South.
Monumental folding wall map of Iran compiled by John Macdonald Kinneir, an army officer and diplomat attached to Sir John Malcolm's 1808-9 mission to Persia. This map was originally published by Aaron Arrowsmith, one of London's foremost geographers, to accompany Kinneir's A Geographical Memoir of the Persian Empire (1813); however, the map's superb and unparalleled accuracy meant that it continued to be the best available map of Iran as late as the 1850s when a new edition was published by the Surveyor General's Office in Calcutta to support the Anglo-Persian War effort.
Original hand colour. [Folded]
Monumental folding wall map of Iran compiled by John Macdonald Kinneir, an army officer and diplomat attached to Sir John Malcolm's 1808-9 mission to Persia. This map was originally published by Aaron Arrowsmith, one of London's foremost geographers, to accompany Kinneir's A Geographical Memoir of the Persian Empire (1813); however, the map's superb and unparalleled accuracy meant that it continued to be the best available map of Iran as late as the 1850s when a new edition was published by the Surveyor General's Office in Calcutta to support the Anglo-Persian War effort.
Original hand colour. [Folded]
