Title:
Nouvelle Carte Générale des Provinces Asiatiques de l'Empire Ottoman (sans l'Arabie) dressée par Henri Kiepert, Berlin 1883. Chemins De Fer d'après l'état de 1909.
Map maker:
Heinrich Kiepert, Dietrich Reimer
Place and Year:
Berlin, 1909
Dimensions:
104 x 172 cm (41 x 67.5 in)
Technique:
Chromolithograph
Coloring:
Original coloring
Condition Rating:
VG

This impressive, large map depicts the heart of the Ottoman Empire, including Turkey, the Levant (modern Syria, Lebanon, Israel and Jordan) and Iraq; plus adjacent regions, including parts of Persia (Iran), Egypt and the Caucuses. One of the most detailed and accurate geographical overviews of the region ever made to date, it was complied in 1883 by the immensely knowledgeable and well connected German geographer Heinrich Kiepert, and updated to 1909 under the supervision of Kiepert’s son, Richard, also a professional geographer. The present edition of the Kiepert map is especially interesting and important, as it, perhaps better than any other map, showcases the ‘New Great Game’, the grand German-Ottoman designs in the region, conducted at the expense of the new Anglo-Russian alliance, in the immediate run-up to World War I.

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Good; some areas of light toning, separations in linen at some folds (since mended) with very minor chipping and loss to edges of few map sections; case heavily worn with loss to upper part of spine. Dissected into 65 sections and mounted upon original linen (104 x 172 cm / 41 x 67.5 inches), plus smaller chromolithographed political map, dissected into 10 sections and mounted upon original linen (33 x 55 cm / 13 x 21.5 inches), all folding into original card case, pastedown seller’s stamps of ‘Edward Stanford Ltd.’ and former pastedown owner’s stamp of the ‘Library of the Institute of Civil Engineers’ of Great Britain.