Dapper’s Plan of Cairo Edition_first French edition maps tell many stories

maps tell many stories

but generally clean

but the date and privilege have been erased on our example of the map

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

appertaining to the Church and Poor of the Parish of St

Dapper’s Plan of Cairo Edition_first French edition maps tell many storiesDappers 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