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Cyprus.
Description: Striking and hightly detailed copper engraved chart of Cyprus by D’Anville.
In this map D’Anville is attempt at combining mathematical cartography with literary tradition. This map presents first scientific map of Cyprus was constructed by D’Anville on the basis on the Greek Study, together with the assistance of a great amount of ancient and new informations.
Date: 1762 ( dated )
Dimension: Paper size approx.: cm 37,3 x 25,8
Condition: Very strong and dark impression on strong paper. Paper with chains. Contempary original colors. Wide margins. Small browning and foxing. Small warmings. Conditions are as you can see in the images.
Cartographer: Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d’Anville (1697-1782) was perhaps the most important and prolific cartographer of the 18th century. D’Anville’s love of cartography manifested itself at the tender age of fifteen, when he amused himself by composing maps for Latin authors. At twenty-two D’Anville was appointed Geographer to the King of France. As both a cartographer and a geographer, he instituted a reform in the general practice of cartography. Unlike most cartographers, D’Anville did not rely on earlier maps to inform his work, rather he based his maps on actual surveys and research that he conducted himself. His maps were thus the most accurate and comprehensive of his period. Thomas Basset and Philip Porter write: “It was because of D’Anville’s resolve to depict only those features which could be proven to be true that his maps are often said to represent a scientific reformation in cartography.” (The Journal of African History, Vol. 32, No. 3 (1991), pp. 367-413). The work of D’Anville thus marks a critical point in the history of cartography and opens the way to the maps of English cartographers Cary, Thomson and Pinkerton in the early 19th century.
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