MEDITERRANEAN SEA 1787 PHILIPPE DE PRETOT ANTIQUE ORIGINAL COPPER ENGRAVED MAP

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Double your traffic. Carte Ou l’on voit la position des principaux royaumes et etats qui environnoient la Mediterranée, lorsque les Romains commencerent leurs guerres au dela de l’Italie. Description: Striking and hightly detailed copper engraved historical map of the Mediterranean Sea, under the Ancient Romains Domination. The map extends from Iberian Peninsula (to the West) to Turkey and Holy Land (to the east). The map covers also Northern Africa . Map gives several details concerning place namemes, lakes, rivers, montains, islands. Map flanked with a decorative title cartouche. Date: 1787 ( undated ) Dimension: Pa per size approx.: cm 43,3 x 28,1 Condition: Very strong a nd dark impression on thin paper. Paper with chains. Uncolored as issued. Top margin cut very shortly. Wide lower margin. Lateral margin fully missed . Small foxing and browning. Conditions are as you can see in the images. Mapmaker: Etienne André Philippe de Pretot (1708-1787) a royal censor and professor of history at the Royal Academy of Science in Paris . View My Feedback View My Other Items For Sale Visit my eBay Store All of the maps we sell are ORIGINALS. We guarantee all of our maps to be authentic. We do our best to describe the condition of our maps as accurately as possible. Due to the age and type of paper, some imperfections are to be expected. read more