Dapper’s Plan of Cairo Edition_first French edition but generally clean

but generally clean

Koeman Me 186

Shirley 631

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

Dapper’s Plan of Cairo Edition_first French edition but generally cleanDappers 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