The great desert of Arabia.

Description

Title: The great desert of Arabia.
Creator: Hole, William, -1624
Contributor: Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618. History of the world
Published / Created: [1614]
Copyright Date: [1614]
Publication Place: [London] :
Publisher: [Printed by William Stansby for Walter Burre],
Description: "Arabia the happie, the north part" at lower edge.
From Sir Walter Raleigh's History of the world (1614).
In upper left corner: 64; in upper right corner: 65.
Relief shown pictorially.
Shows a portion of the Mediterranean Sea with Cyprus and Cappadocia to the northwest, the Red Sea and the Persian Sea to the south. Arabia desert and Mesopotamia near center.
The map identifies the Home of Abraham at Vrocha (Chaldea), the first plantation of Chus, Babylon, Jerusalem the Garden of Eden, the City of Petra (then known to European only in legend), and the route taken by Abraham into Egypt.
Watermark.
Extent: 1 map ; 30 x 35 cm, sheet 34 x 37 cm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Scale: Scale approximately 1:3,000,000
Coordinates: (E 33°00ʹ00ʺ--E 50°00ʹ00ʺ/N 38°00ʹ00ʺ--N 26°00ʹ00ʺ)., 026.000000, 033.000000, 038.000000, 050.000000, 3000000, and a
Language: English

Format: cartographic
Genre: Early works
Maps
Pictorial maps
Resource Type: Maps, Atlases & Globes
Subject (Geographic): Iraq--Historical geography--Maps.
Middle East--Maps--Early works to 1800.
Subject (Name): Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618. History of the world
Subject (Topic): Historical geography--Maps

Access: Public
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