Carte de la Coste d'Arabie, Mer Rouge, et Golfe de Perse: Bellin 1740

Title: Carte de la Coste d'Arabie, Mer Rouge, et Golfe de Perse Author: Jacques-Nicolas Bellin Date: 1740 Medium: Copperplate engraving Condition: Very Good Plus - light age toning, vertical trifolds, tide mark lower right corner Inches: 13 1/2 x 9 3/4 [Paper] Centimeters: 34.29 x 24.77 [Paper] Product ID: 315079 Carte de la Coste d'Arabie, Mer Rouge, et Golfe de Perse. Tirée de la Carte Françoise de l'Océan Oriental. Publiée Par Ordre de Mgr. le Comte de Maurepas en 1740. "Map of the Arabian Coast, Red Sea, and Gulf of Persia. Taken from the French Map of the Eastern Ocean. Published By Order of the Count of Maurepas in 1740." Map of the Arabian Peninsula including parts of present-day Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, Ethiopia, Egypt, Sudan Eritrea, Djibouti, Somalia, Iraq, Iran, Bahrain, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, Israel, Jordan, and Kuwait. Published by French hydrographer and geographer Jacques-Nicolas Bellin (1703-1772), who produced a prodigious body of work over a ne