CARTOGRAPHIC CURIOSITY CARTE DU PAYS OU PROBABLEMENT A ETE LE PARADIS TERRESTE

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Interesting curio map-title translates as 'Country where probably Paradise on Earth was' with Garden of Eden in present day Northern Iraq.V.Good condition.sold

code : M1075

Cartographer : Louis Brion de la Tour

Date : 1779 Paris

Size : 19*19cms

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Louis Brion de la Tour (1756-1823) was the Cartographer Royal to the King of France.

There is little information about his life. His official title was "King's Engineer Geographer." Although he is a prolific geographer, very little is currently known of his life or his career. His life was spent in scientific work. However what is known is an important part of his work was done in collaboration with Louis Charles Desnos (1750-1790 to) a bookseller and geographical engineer for the globes and spheres of His Danish Majesty.

His son Louis Brion de la Tour, a pupil of Jean-Bernard Restout, was engraver of maps and documents of the Revolution, and was also an occasional portrait oil paintings.