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Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville: Orbis Romani Pars Occidentalis Auspiciis Serenissimi Principis Ludovici Philippi Aurelianorum Ducis Publici juris Facta…
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Orbis Romani Pars Occidentalis Auspiciis Serenissimi Principis Ludovici Philippi Aurelianorum Ducis Publici juris Facta… |
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English: A large and dramatic J. B. B. D'Anville map of the western part of the Roman Empire. Covers from England (Brittania) and Ireland (Hibernia), south to Spain (Hispania) and Morocco (Mauretania), and east as far as Italy (Italia) and Dalmatia. Includes the western part of the Mediterranean Sea and the Adriatic. Details mountains rivers, cities, roadways, and lakes with political divisions highlighted in outline color. Decorative title cartouche bearing the Roman Eagle appears in the upper right. Includes eight distance scales, bottom center, referencing various measurement systems common in antiquity. Text in Latin and English. Drawn by J. B. B. D'Anville in 1764 and published in 1794 by Laurie and Whittle, London. |
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Date | dated 1763, published 1794 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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height: 26.5 in (67.3 cm); width: 21.5 in (54.6 cm) dimensions QS:P2048,26.5U218593 dimensions QS:P2049,21.5U218593 |
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Geographicus link: RomanEmpireWest-anville-1794 |
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D'Anville, J. B. B., Complete Body of Ancient Geography, Laurie and Whittle, London, 1795.
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