Historical map of the coast of Asia Minor. 18th-century illustration of a map from antiquity of the coast of Asia Minor, from the atlas by French cart

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Historical map of the coast of Asia Minor. 18th-century illustration of a map from antiquity of the coast of Asia Minor, from the atlas by French cartographer Jean-Denis Barbie du Bocage (1760-1825) to accompany 'The Travels of Anacharsis the Younger in Greece' (1787) by French writer Jean-Jacques Barthelemy (1716-1795). This work, which the author pretend was by a grandson of a 6th-century-BC Scythian philosopher, was intended to popularise classical Greek history. Map engraved in the 1780s.

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Size: 2576px × 3709px
Photo credit: © COLLECTION ABECASIS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
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