PARIS THE LANTERN OF DIOGENES ST CLOUD
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Attractive steel engraving.Horses Carriage etc.Paris in background.Mint condition.
code : P889
Cartographer : Wytfliet, Cornelis van
Date : 1840c London
Size : 11.5*17cms
availability : Sold
Price : Sold
Antique Maps by Cornelius Wytfliet (*1550 - †1597)
Cornelius van Wytfliet, also known as Cornelis van Wytfliet, was a Flemish cartographer. His Atlas of America with 19 double page engraved maps made him famous today. First published in 1596 in Leuven (Louvain), Flanders in Latin with the title Descriptionis Ptolemaicae Augmentum. The accuracy of some of the maps is still a mystery today. Especially the course of the north coast of North America, the Antarctica and various river courses are reproduced quite accurately, and this before - according to today's knowledge - any European has ever seen these regions.