Manuscript map of North and South America with California shown as an island, hand-colored, with four ink drawings of sailing ships, along with a giant whale, and a navigator's T inside a circle. Arabic text calligraphed in lower compartments, with place names on the land masses and in the oceans; Arabic text also on the back of the map 24x34 cm. (9½x13¼").

Rare and unusual Ottoman map from the Chihj Atlas of 1734, beautifully hand-drawn and colored with elegant calligraphy, showing the Western Hemisphere including most of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. California is an odd-shaped island off the West Coast of North America, and there is a large island surrounded by several smaller ones roughly where Hawaii should be. A portion of a great Southern Continent lies south of Patagonia.