Historic Map : Bonne Map of Persia (Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan), 1771, Vintage Wall Art Asia India Nepal Bhutan Tibet Ceylon or Sri Lanka Geographical Hondius Atlas Major

Hondius Atlas Major

At the northern polar caps is a wonderful allegorical vignette of the mythological wind god Aiolos whose floating prison island of Aiolia constrained the storm sprits Anemoi Thuellai and Aellai

This incredible event

Lindblad Pictorial Map of Australia

also drawn from the Wytfliet California

Historic Map : Bonne Map of Persia (Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan), 1771, Vintage Wall Art Asia India Nepal Bhutan Tibet Ceylon or Sri Lanka Geographical Hondius Atlas MajorA beautiful example of Rigobert Bonne's 1771 decorative map of the Persia. Covers from the Black Sea south to the Persian Gulf and east past the Caspian Sa to the Indus Valley. Includes the modern day nations of Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Afghanistan, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, with parts of adjacent Turkey, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan. Names numerous tribal areas, villages, cities, deserts, caravan routes, and river systems. A large decorative title