Antique Map of Persia by Tirion (c.1744)

Description: Antique map titled 'Nuova Carta del Regno di Persia'. This map displays a region stretching from the eastern Black Sea all the way east to the Indus River. Bodies of water denoted are the eastern half of the Black Sea, the Caspian Sea, the Persian Gulf. All major regions and kingdoms of the time are described, including Georgia, Armenia, Bukhara, Samarkand, Iraq and Persia. 

Artists and Engravers: Isaak Tirion, a Dutch publisher in Amsterdam, was born 1705. He produced serveral Atlases and Dutch town plans. The maps mainly based on those of Guillaume de l'Isle. He died in 1765. Tirion was born in Utrecht in 1705. He moved to Amsterdam in 1725 and set up shop on Damrak as a book publisher. Tirion quick rose in prominence by publishing pamphlets, historical works, and, most importantly, maps and atlases. He eventually relocated his printing house to the prestigious Kalverstraat. In his long career he produced eight atlases in multiple editions, some of which were published posthumously until about 1784. Most of his cartographic work is based on the earlier maps of Guillaume de L'Isle.