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Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville  (1697–1782)  wikidata:Q733907 s:en:Author:Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville q:it:Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville
 
Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville
Description French geographer and cartographer
Date of birth/death 11 July 1697 Edit this at Wikidata 28 January 1782 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Paris Paris
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artist QS:P170,Q733907
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Orbis Romani, pars orientalis. Auspiciis Serenissimi Principis Ludovici Philippi, Aurelianorum Ducis publici juris facta. Auctor d'Anville, Regiae Humaniorium Litterarum Academiae, et Scientiarum Petropolitanae Socius, Celsitudinique Serenissimae a Secretis. MDCCLXXXII.
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English: This is the stunning eastern sheet from Jean Baptiste Bourguignon D’Anville’s two map set depicting the Roman Empire. Depicts the eastern portion of the Mediterranean inclusive of Greece and extends inland as far as modern day Armenia. Contains the whole of the Black Sea (Pontus Euxinus) and extends south well into the Arabian Desert, Egypt and Nubia. Includes the modern day nations of Greece, Turkey, Macedonia, Ukraine, Armenia, Israel / Palestine, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, et al. Uses archaic place names throughout. Decorative title cartouche at the bottom left quadrant. Engraved by Guillaume Delahaye for publication in the 1782 edition of Anville’s Atlas General.
Date 1782
date QS:P571,+1782-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions height: 21.5 in (54.6 cm); width: 26.5 in (67.3 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,21.5U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,26.5U218593
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Geographicus link: RomanEmpireEast-anville-1782
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D'Anville, J.B.B., Atlas Generale (1782 edition)

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