De Stadt Cairus / Le Caire
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A finely engraved, detailed delineation of the ancient city of Cairo. John Ogilby's work "Africa" was based on the Dutch publication of two years earlier, by Jacob van Meurs of Olfert Dapper, entitled "Naukeurige Beschrijvinghe Der Afrikaensche ...". Using, in the main, the same copperplate maps and views, this translation was the best English account of the continent to that time. It was intended to be part of a series of atlases of all parts of the world, which, in fact, was never completed. The maps, with title cartouches supported by native figures, animals and so on, and the plates were finely engraved and represent evocative European perceptions of the regions as known during the seventeenth century.
region: Maps of Northern Africa
place and date of publication:
London 1670
medium and colour:
copperplate, Uncoloured
ref:
30305
size in cms: 33 x 25 Price: £ 240 |
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