Mallet’s Map of Cairo
SKU: 8078Title:
Mallet’s Map of Cairo
Date of publication:
c.1683
Printed Measurement:
15.5 x 10.5 cm
Publisher(s):
Colour:
black and white
Mapmaker(s):
Caire
Copper engraving, 15 x 10.5 cm, black and white, French text on verso; map of Cairo derived, ultimately, from Matteo Pagano’s magnificent 21 sheet wall map, published in Venice in 1549; from Mallet’s Description de l’Univers, first published in Paris in 1683 and reprinted with German text in Frankfurt the following year. Mallet was a military engineer, cartographer and mathematician in the service of the French King, Louis XIV.