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C1748
Mesopotamia and Babylonia with the course of the Euphrates and Tigris.
Mapmaker:
Scarce c.18th map of Babylonia the state in ancient Mesopotamia. The city of Babylon, whose ruins are located in present-day Iraq, was founded more than 4,000 years ago as a small port town on the Euphrates River. It grew into … Read Full Description
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Full Title:
Mesopotamia and Babylonia with the course of the Euphrates and Tigris.
Date:
C1748
Mapmaker:
Condition:
Narrow margins as usual, otherwise in good condition, with folds as issued.
Technique:
Hand coloured copper engraving.
Image Size:
302mm
x 200mm
Paper Size:
315mm
x 21mm
AUTHENTICITY
Genuine antique
dated:
1748
Description:
Scarce c.18th map of Babylonia the state in ancient Mesopotamia. The city of Babylon, whose ruins are located in present-day Iraq, was founded more than 4,000 years ago as a small port town on the Euphrates River. It grew into one of the largest cities of the ancient world under the rule of Hammurabi.
From: Cellarius, Notitia Orbis Antiqui, Sive Geographia
Collections:
National Library Australia: Bib ID: 3209108
State Library New South Wales: Record Identifier 74VKDO7BmLab
State Library Victoria: RARES 910.1 C33
Christoph Cellarius (1638 - 1707)
Cellarius was a German classical scholar from Schmalkalden who held positions in Weimar and Halle. Although the Ancient-Medieval-Modern division of history was used earlier by Italian Renaissance scholars Leonardo Bruni and Flavio Biondo, Cellarius' Universal History Divided into an Ancient, Medieval, and New Period helped popularize it. After him, this tripartite division became standard. The library of the University of Applied Sciences in Schmalkalden bears his name, it is called the "Cellarius Bibliothek", in honor of Cellarius.
