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    Sale 7600

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    23 May 1997

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    AA, Pierre van der. Description exacte de l' Arabie Heureuse, Petrée et Deserte, Leiden: [1729], engraved map, 300 x 360mm. [Tibbetts Arabia in Early Maps 239] -- TIRION, Isaac. Carta Nuova dell' Arabia, Amsterdam: ca. 1731], Italian edition, engraved map (lightly browned, cropped at right margin not affecting image), 275 x 342mm. [cf. Tibbetts 250]. With 3 other maps of Arabia including 2 by Isaac Tirion. (5)

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    GBP 1,092

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    GBP 200 - GBP 300

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    AA, Pierre van der. Description exacte de l' Arabie Heureuse, Petrée et Deserte, Leiden: [1729], engraved map, 300 x 360mm. [Tibbetts Arabia in Early Maps 239] -- TIRION, Isaac. Carta Nuova dell' Arabia, Amsterdam: ca. 1731], Italian edition, engraved map (lightly browned, cropped at right margin not affecting image), 275 x 342mm. [cf. Tibbetts 250]. With 3 other maps of Arabia including 2 by Isaac Tirion. (5)

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    I. Maps & Atlases

    The Stuart McMinn Collection of Maps of Arabia

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