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Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Muhammad al-Farisi al Istakhri, Map of the World, Istakhri, 9th century?

Map of the world from the earliest of the KMMS Ottoman Cluster, 878/1473, Sulemaniye Camii Kutuphanesi, Istanbul, A.S. 2971a, fol. 3a.

Tags: coastal, medieval

Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Muhammad al-Farisi al-Istakhri (آبو إسحاق إبراهيم بن محمد الفارسي الإصطخري) (also Estakhri, Persian: استخری‎, i.e. from the Iranian city of Istakhr, b. - d. 957 AD [346AH][1]) was a Persian medieval geographer in medieval Islam and traveler of the 10th century., Map of the Persian Gulf by Estakhri, 8-9thC

8-9thC map of the Persian Gulf

Tags: coastal, early modern, Persian Gulf

James Helme and William Chandler, An exact plan of the sea coast of the continent from Paucatuck River ... to Slocum's Harbour ... (1741), 1741

"An exact plan of the sea coast of the continent from Paucatuck River eastwards to Point Judith and from thence northwards to the town of Providence…

Tags: coastal, eighteenth century, Rhode Island