Dapper’s Plan of Cairo Edition_first French edition

Dapper’s Plan of Cairo Edition_first French editionDappers plan of Cairo follows Matteo Paganos magnificent 21 sheet wall map, published in Venice in 1549. Cairo was one of the great trading centres of the early modern world, and Venice was Cairos principal European trading partner. Most western map makers, including Braun & Hogenberg, used Pagano as a base map until Pierre Jacotin surveyed Cario for Napoleon during the French occupation 250 years later. Dapper takes Pagano's viewpoint, from the west

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but the date and privilege have been erased on our example of the map

maps tell many stories

but generally clean

which was a step towards improving the reliability of charts of the French coast available to the Royal Navy during the Seven Years’ War

Italian text on verso

Koeman Me 186

Copies are located in the British Library (OCLC 556355832)

original green paper wrappers

Shirley 631

From the first edition of ‘The Holy Land’ and ‘Egypt and Nubia’