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Jean Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville: Tabula Italiae Antiquae Geographica Quam Excellentissimus Dominus Dux de la Rochefou Cauld in oere incidi curavit.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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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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Paris Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q733907
Title
Tabula Italiae Antiquae Geographica Quam Excellentissimus Dominus Dux de la Rochefou Cauld in oere incidi curavit.
Description
English: A large and dramatic 1764 J. B. B. D'Anville map of Italy in ancient Roman times. Covers from Lake Geneva (Lemanus Lac) to Sicily (Sicilia), inclusive of the entire Italian peninsula, Sardinia, Corsica, Sicily, and Dalmatia. Details mountains rivers, cities, roadways, and lakes with political divisions highlighted in outline color. An inset in the upper right details the vicinity of Rome. Another inset in the lower left offers a city plan of Rome. Title are appears in a framed zone above the map proper. Includes four distance scales referencing various measurement systems common in antiquity. Text in Latin and English. Drawn by J. B. B. D'Anville in 1764 and published in 1795 by Laurie and Whittle, London.
Date 1764 (dated)
Dimensions height: 24 in (60.9 cm); width: 19.5 in (49.5 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,24U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,19.5U218593
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Geographicus link: ItalyAntiquae-anville-1764
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D'Anville, J. B. B., Complete Body of Ancient Geography, Laurie and Whittle, London, 1795.

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