Flumina Quatuor Paradisi Terrestris [Map of Arabia and the Middle East] c.1723
Paris (?): ( 1723). Pliny the Elder. Original copper engraved map, 340mm x 435mm (plate mark), professionally cleaned and laid onto acid free tissue. Map of Arabia and the Middle East showing Terra Chanaan (Canaan), an ancient term for a region of the southern Levant encompassing modern-day Israel, Lebanon, the Palestinian territories and adjoining coastal lands, including parts of Jordan, Syria, Arabia Deserta (Saudi Arabia) and north-eastern Egypt. Seas include Mare Rubrum (Red Sea); Mare Persicum (Persian Sea); Mare Magnum (Mediterranean Sea) and rivers: Nile, Tigris, Euphrates and Jordan
Most likely from Pliny's monumental scientific work, 'Historia Naturalis'. Item #95175
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