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Roux’s Small Benghazi

Roux’s Small Map of Benghazi

SKU: 7576
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Title:
Roux’s Small Map of Benghazi

Date of publication:

  • 1804

    • Printed Measurement:

  • 14.5 x 20 cm

    • Publisher:

  • Yves Gravier

    • Colour:

  • black and white

    • Mapmaker:

  • Joseph Roux

    • This chart of Benghazi is from the practical pocket sea atlas by Marseilles hydrographer Joseph Roux.

    Charting the ports and harbours of the Mediterranean, the atlas remained popular half a century after its first appearance in 1764. Read more

    This edition, expanded to 163 charts, was published by a French bookseller in Napoleon’s short-lived client state, the Ligurian Republic.

    Condition & Materials

    Copper engraving, 14.5 x 20 cm, black and white as issued, light staining bottom right, blank verso. Read less