ARABIAN PENINSULA EGYPT RED SEA SUDAN ETHIOPIA 1705 DE FER UNUSUAL ANTIQUE MAP

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ARABIAN PENINSULA EGYPT RED SEA SUDAN ETHIOPIA 1705 DE FER UNUSUAL ANTIQUE MAP
ARABIAN PENINSULA EGYPT RED SEA SUDAN ETHIOPIA 1705 DE FER UNUSUAL ANTIQUE MAP
Description
Partie Orientale d'Afrique ou se trouvent l'Egipte, la Nubie, Ll'Abissine, et l'AJan et partie de la Nigritie, du Grande Desert et du Bildulgerid &c., ou se trouvent encore L'Arabie qui fait partie l'Asie -- Et La Mer Rouge Par N. de Fer, geographe de Sa Majesté Catolique et de Monseigneur le Dauphin. A Paris Chez l'Auteur Avec privilege du Roy 1703.
Description:
Striking and highly detailed
interesting 17o3 Nicolas de Fer's copper engraved map of the region aroubd the Red Sea
. Civers Arabian Peninsula, Egypt, eastern part of Libya, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea and part of Somalia as well as sdouthern Italy, Cyprus, southern Greece, Niddle East and southern Turkey. The map is filled with excellent topograhic detail on cities, towns,rivers, lakes, reliefs, islands and regional divisions. Several local Kingdoms are noted inside the map. A strapwork title cartouche, a mileage scale and a compass rose complete the map.
Date:
1703 ( dated )
Dimension:
Paper size approx.:
cm 38,9 x 26,7
Condition:
Very strong and dark impression on good paper. Paper with chains and wiremarks. Map contemporary handcolored. Wide margins
. Corners partially missing. Small foxing and browning. Conditions are as you can see in the images
.
Mapmaker:
Nicholas de Fer (1646-1720) was the son of a map seller, Antoine de Fer, and grew to be one of the most well-known mapmakers in France in the seventeenth century. He was apprenticed at twelve years old to Louis Spirinx, an engraver. When his father died in 1673, Nicholas helped his mother run the business until 1687, when he became the sole proprietor.
His earliest known work is a map of the Canal of Languedoc in 1669, while some of his earliest engravings are in the revised edition of Methode pour Apprendre Facilement la Geographie (1685). In 1697, he published his first world atlas. Perhaps his most famous map is his wall map of America, published in 1698, with its celebrated beaver scene (engraved by Hendrick van Loon, designed by Nicolas Guerard). After his death in 1720, the business passed to his sons-in-law, Guillaume Danet and Jacques-Francois Benard
.
All of the maps we sell are ORIGINALS. We guarantee all of our maps to be authentic. We do our best to describe the condition of our maps as accurately as possible. Due to the age and type of paper, some imperfections are to be expected. Please examine the images provided carefully, and if you have any questions please ask and we will be happy to help.
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