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Colour paper map 56x73cm with a remarkable amount of interesting printed detail relating to Hajj, exploration etc, folding into green cloth case 10x20cm with printed title label to front and publisher's adverts inside. Map good only, tanned with some spotting, short tears, and some white paper repairs to fold ends. The colours however remain bright. Case very good with some marks to the label. Rare, with Worldcat and Library Hub locating 5 institutions holding two editions (BL, BnF, Cambridge, West Virginia, Stanford). Undated c1883 based on the adverts previewing Letts' 12 part Popular County Atlas of England ("Part 1 ready 25th January, 1884"), which places it shortly after the British conquest of Egypt in Sept 1882. Scale 68.8 English Miles to 1 Degree of Latitude. The area is roughly bounded by Jerusalem (N), locations east of Riyadh (Riad) (E), Harar (S), and Libyan Desert oases (W). Territorial boundaries are marked in colour (in Arabia named El Hejaz, El Yemen, El Hasse). Hajj details include routes with stopping points (notably from Nejd "Pilgrims' Route with wells & villages", Iraq, Yemen, Damascus, Cairo with its "20th station" at El Houra), and the Caravan to Mecca from Keneh on the Nile to Kosseir (pop. 900) on the Red Sea coast, involving a boat crossing, Arafat, Muna etc. Also labelled or described are tribes; explorers' routes (Burton to Harar in 1854, Speke, Lefebvre, Ruppell, Palgrave, Pelly, Sadleir, Burckhardt, Wallin, Linant, Ibrahim Pasha, Capt Haines, et al), caravan routes (eg Harar to Zeila 14 days; Darfour caravan); modern sites (eg Basrah - ships of 500 tons come to the town; Hillah - Bridge of Boats) and ancient (eg Meroe (80 brick pyramids), Mareb (walled 300 houses, but a prodigious reservoir of water, now ruined) etc; population (Medina 500 houses; Wah-el-Kharjeh or Great Oasis 13 villages, etc); geographical speculation (eg. Browne vs Cailliaud on the Oasis of Selimah), colonial possessions; geographic features associated with exploration (eg, Nubia - Moving sands, Simoum, Mirage, No water. El Morrat - the only well on this road); speculative mineral wealth ("gold washing" at Tira Mandi); and much else. Seller Inventory # 3910
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