Old Map of the Middle East in Arabic Script, 1890 - Ottoman Empire, Balkans, Arabian Peninsula, Black Sea shropshire work leaving or housewarming gift

work leaving or housewarming gift for someone from Herefordshire or who has this Welsh border county in their heart

was a very important event in the history of Germany and Europe

Even by the 1600s Ipswich was fairly well developed - you might even recognise some of the streets from central Ipswich

Australia had only been founded about 60 years prior - and in case you were wondering

back when Essex extended all the way into the city

Old Map of the Middle East in Arabic Script, 1890 - Ottoman Empire, Balkans, Arabian Peninsula, Black Sea shropshire work leaving or housewarming giftThis old and exceedingly rare map of the Ottoman Empire and Arabian Peninsula is, rather unusually, labelled in Ottoman Turkish Arabic script. Put together by the first modern Turkish cartographer, Hafz Ali Eref (also known as Ali Sheref Pasha), this masterpiece map was first published in 1896 by the Turkish government's Map Office. This is a huge map it was over 150cm wide originally and there's a vast amount of detail. Please look at the listing