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bd14578_.gif (200 bytes) Cairo 1636
Olfert Dapper

Description de L’Afrique, Amsterdam. 1636.Between pages 54 & 55:
"The City Cairus/ De Stadt/ Cairus"
engraving (252 x 339 mm. - plate mark).

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The view is copied from the Braun and Hogenberg Map of 1552.


bd14578_.gif (200 bytes) Cairo 1645
Settecento

View of Cairo from Moqattam Hills
" Vue du Caire pris de La rive du Nil et montrant, Les Pyramides."

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This map is distinguished by its angle of   view from the Moqattem hills. The map illustrates the city, the Nile, and the Pyramids.


bd14578_.gif (200 bytes) Cairo 1683
Manesson Mallet

CAIRE
"Description de l'Univers, Paris, 1683"

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This map is yet another copy of the famous 1549 map by Pagano with some little details added to the original map.


bd14578_.gif (200 bytes) Cairo 1685-87
Vaisseau Graviers d' Ortiees

Plan Cavalier de:
" Estat de places que les princes mahometans possedent sur les costes de la mer Mediterranee "
1685-1687 Tome III

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This map is basically a copy of the Braun and Hogenberg Map of 1552 with a different representation of Cairo's surrounding landscape.

 

 

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