18th century map of Arabia

Item

Description
Folding map of Arabia, engraved by Richard William Seale (1703-62), and bound in an edition of George Sale's translation of the Qur'an: 'The Koran, commonly called the Alcoran of Mohammed' (London: Hawes &c., 1764). In addition to delineating the Arabian Peninsula, the map shows the Mediterranean, Indian and Red seas, Palestine, Syria, Iraq, Persia, parts of Egypt and Ethiopia, as well as a small insert illustration of ‘The Temple of Mecca, as it was formally, from a draught in the Bodleian Library.'
Spatial Coverage
Saudi Arabia
Subject
Gulf
Islam
Creator
Richard William Seale
Identifier
Reserve Collection 297.122 SAL
Resource class
Image