Middle East

25x36 cm

PERSIA
Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin with illustrations by H. Warren, engraved by S.Fisher. Published in The Illustrated Atlas and Modern History of the World...Edited by R. Montgomery Martin Esq. by John Tallis and Company, London and New York 1851.
Vignettes of Ispahan, Kurds, A Bactrian Camel and a Persian.
Very good example from the 1851 edition. Without centrefold, in original outline hand colour and with accompanying page of typeset text description of Persia.