Road Map of Iran. [National Iranian Oil Company]. Middle East, incl. Arabian Gulf: History, Travels, Falconry and Horses

Original colour-lithograph map, 585 x 882 mm. In English and Farsi. Legend also in French. First edition. Detailed map of Iran produced by Sahab Geographic & Drafting Institute for the National Iranian Oil Company at a time of rapid industrial development under the rule of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Includes portions of Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Iraq, Turkey, USSR, Afghanistan and Pakistan, indicating national boundaries, major cities, towns and settlements, next to roads, railroads, airports, oilfields, refineries, and pipelines, as well as important hunting and fishing grounds, archaeological sites, ski resorts, thermal spas, casinos and beaches. - Includes a small inset map of Bahrain, an Arabic-English glossary of the most important map terminoloy, and an index to places on the map. Plans of 12 major Iranian cities on the reverse: Tehran, Ahwaz, Isfahan, Shiraz, Abadan, Mashhad, Rasht, Kerman, Tabriz, Kermanshah, Resaiyeh, and Sari. - The Sahab Geographic and Drafting Institute was founded in Tehran in 1935, the first private geographic and mapmaking enterprise in the Middle East. - Very well preserved. - OCLC 5491976.