Dapper’s Plan of Cairo Edition_first French edition Italian text on verso

Italian text on verso

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

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

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

maps tell many stories

Dapper’s Plan of Cairo Edition_first French edition Italian text on versoDappers 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