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Antique Sommer& Sapunaru KG, München, Germany
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Technic: Copper print, colorit: original colored, condition: Some restoration at centerfold, size (in cm): 67 x 48 cm; - Map depicts the Red Sea with coasts of Egypt, Sudan and the Arabian peninsula. 4 inset maps, 1. The city of Bur Sudan (Suakem), 2. The island Matzua and Arkiko in Sudan, 3. The harbour of Dschidda in Saudi-Arabia, 4. The strait of Bab-el-Mandeb with the island Perim. Seller Inventory # ASA1069_500
Title: Golfe Arabique ou Mer Rouge
Publisher: Artist: Anville d Jean Babtiste ( - 1782 ) Paris issued in: Paris; - Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (1697 -1782) was a French geographer and the reformer of old and new cartography Bourguignon d'Anville devoted himself early to geographical studies already in the age of 21 became a royal geographerWith this appointment he later rose as a private secretary of Louis Duke of Orléans He published 211 maps and became a member of the Académie des sciences in 1773 His valuable map collection consisting of 10500 numbers was purchased for the Royal Library of Paris now the Bibliothèque Nationale de France Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville was a geographer and cartographer who greatly improved the standards of map making Particularly valuable
Publication Date: 1697
Seller: Antique Sommer& Sapunaru KG, München, Germany
Technic: Copper print, colorit: original coloredcondition: Some restoration at centerfold, size (in cm): 67 x 48 cm; - Map depicts the Red Sea with coasts of Egypt, Sudan and the Arabian peninsula. 4 inset maps, 1. The city of Bur Sudan (Suakem), 2. The island Matzua and Arkiko in Sudan, 3. The harbour of Dschidda in Saudi-Arabia, 4. The strait of Bab-el-Mandeb with the island Perim. Seller Inventory # ASA1069
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