Syria.

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Steel engraving, hand colored in outline and wash. Fine engraved map is showing Syria, depicts the Gulf of Iskenderun to the Dead Sea and includes the modern day Syria, Lebanon, Israel and parts of Jordan and Turkey. - The map is decorated with four finely hand colored engraved vignettes: a baggage of camels, a city view of Jerusalem and two Arabs. The actual map was drawn and engraved by J. Rapkin. The illustrations were engraved by various artists: R. Radclyffe, W. Lacy, J. Rogers, J. H. Kernot, J. B. Allen, T. Fleming, H. Winkles, R. Baker after drawings by H. Warren, H. Winkles and H. Wray.