Sahab's Map of Tehran Mapmaker(s)_Petrus Schenk This map of Portugal was

This map of Portugal was published in Chiquet’s ‘Le nouveau et curieux atlas géographique et historique

His biographer Alan Ereira explores Ogilby's earlier incarnations in The Nine Lives of John Ogilby as a dancing master

but it is a typically handsome product of the press

Froben had made Basel a centre for the priting of Greek and Latin texts

Printed area measures 53 x 65 cm

Sahab's Map of Tehran Mapmaker(s)_Petrus Schenk This map of Portugal wasThis map of Tehran features a legend in the borders listing 218 places of interest in the pre Revolutionary city. The mapmakers own premises are identified within a red oval in the right hand part of the map. Abbas (1921 2000) was encouraged by his father and his teachers to draft maps from a remarkably young age: considered by many as the father of modern Persian cartography he established the SGDI [Sahab Geographic and Drafting Institute] in 1936