Historic Map : Bonne Map of Persia (Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan), 1771, Vintage Wall Art Asia India Nepal Bhutan Tibet Ceylon or Sri Lanka Geographical At the northern polar caps

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

Hondius Atlas Major

Nautical Chart Entrance to The York River

Lederer passes a great savanna on his right and ultimately finds himself on the shores of Ashley Lake (which he calls Ushery and which on our map corresponds with the Great Freshwater Lake of the American Southwest popularized by the 1606 Mercator - Hondius Map)

lower right quadrant

Historic Map : Bonne Map of Persia (Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan), 1771, Vintage Wall Art Asia India Nepal Bhutan Tibet Ceylon or Sri Lanka Geographical At the northern polar capsA 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