Copper engraving with original wash and outline (water)colour.
Published by Laurie & Whittle, 53, Fleet Street, London, 9 September 1794, as part of "A New and Elegant Imperial Sheet Atlas" circa 1813-14.
Image size: 465 x 600mm - 18 3/8 x 23 5/8"
Sheet size: 530 x 717mm - 20 7/8 x 28 1/4"
In generally good condition overall; colour good and still bright; only very slight evidence of staining along vertical centre fold.
The full title of this map is: A NEW MAP OF ARABIA Divided into ITS SEVERAL REGIONS AND DISTRICTS. From Monsr. d'Anville, Geographer to the most Christian King with additions and improvements from Mr. Niebuhr. Carsten Niebuhr (1733 - 1815) was a German traveller who in the early 1760s became the sole survivor of the first scientific expedition to Arabia and the compiler of its results: Beschreibung von Arabien (Description of Arabia”) was published in 1772, and Reisebeschreibung nach Arabien und andern umliegenden Ländern (Travels Through Arabia) in 1774. (Source Britannica).
The map displays the region including the eastern shore of the Mediterranean, Gulf of the Red Sea, the Persian Gulf (inc. Bahrain) and Persian Sea in the midst of which lies the Arabian Desert - 'very barren and continued between Mekka and Oman'. The habitations, mainly along the coastline are shown, so too, some of the mountain ranges and caravan routes.
