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SANSON, Nicolas, d'Abbeville (1600-1667). Egypte moderne. Paris: Pierre Mariette, [c. 1660].

Double-page engraved map, hand-coloured in outline, title within cartouche to west, towns, cities and mountain ranges represented, the pyramids and 'Caves des Mumies shown outside Cairo, with the Levantine coast shown as far north as Jaffa, with the Dead Sea to the east, the holy city of Medina shown in the Arabian peninsula, the Nile stretching southwards as far as Aswan, 410 x 460mm. (plate mark), 460 x 610mm. (sheet)

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