Steel engraved Dutch plan of Hormuz by Jacob van der Schley with decorated borders, measuring 25 x 20 cm, [ca. 1760].

Synopsis

From Prevost’s Histoire Générale des Voyages. A marine plan of Hormuz, showing on the left side a part of the Island of Kishim, the lower part of the Persian coast, the Island of Hormuz with its fortress, and the entrance of ships and numerous vessel anchoring.
“This map probably comes from Raynal’s History of the East Indies, and it was earlier published in Prevot’s collection of voyages”. Qasimi p. 203.