Map Of Persia, or Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Antique Map by Delisle, 1724

A fine recreation of Guillaume de L'Isle's 1724 map of Persia. Covers Crimea and the Sea of Azov, the Persian Gulf, the Strait of Hormuz, and east to Kashmir (Cachmir) and Kabul (Caboul). This map includes modern day Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Georgia, Armenia, and Azerbaijan, with parts of Russia, Pakistan, Turkey, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan, and Arabia. Cartographically, de L'Isle's mapping of Persia marks a significant advance in European cartographic knowledge of the region. This map benefits considerably from Russian cartographic surveys and other sources no doubt smuggled to Guillaume de L'Isle by his brother Nicholas, who held a cartographic position with the Russian Academy of Sciences. The extent to which Russian data influenced this map is evident in the rendering of the Caspian Sea – one of the first accurate maps of the great lake to follow Van Verden's historic survey of 1721. Russian cartographic information is also apparent with regard to place names, such as the Russian name for the Aral Sea (Glouchoiye). It is equally likely that de L'Isle drew on Russian sources for his mapping of the Silk Route centers of Bukhara, Samarkand, and Ferghana, which were known stopping points for Russian trade envoys to China.