Persia

Persia Hall, Sidney. Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green cartographic map cartographic image enk 1828, [1830] 1828 monographic eng No Known Copyright No Known Copyright by Sidney Hall. Relief shown by hachures. Also numbered "28." This is a beautiful map of Persia from Sidney Hall's extremely scarce 1835 New General Atlas. It covers from Kouk Daria (Garaboazkoi Basin) to the Indian Ocean and the mouths of the Indus Rover and the Great Rann of Kutch in India. It includes the modern day nations of Iran and Afghanistan as well as parts of Pakistan and Turkmenistan. Hall shows offshore reefs and banks in the Persian Gulf. Towns, rivers, mountains, islands and various other important topographical details are noted. Elevation throughout is rendered by hachure and political and territorial boundaries are outlined in color. He also notes several ruins, including the Ruins of Persepolis and the Ruins of Susa. Persia at this time was controlled by the powerful Qajar Dynasty of Shahs. - Main Heritage Compact General HC.MAP.00920 Print Map Item-ID: i1140243x BIB-ID: 1172586 a-ir--- aw----- Scale [ca. 1:5,200,000] (E 44°--E 73°/N 40°--N 24°). Iran Maps Middle East Maps New general atlas Hall, Sidney. London : Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 1830. (OCoLC)51851290 pl. XXVIII. 51876540 aacr CUY 030318 20131210015114.0 ocm51876540 Converted from MARCXML to MODS version 3.5 using MARC21slim2MODS3-5.xsl (Revision 1.111 2016/3/24)