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Description

Beautifully hand-colored engraved map of Greece and Turkey, showing Cyprus.

The map has a rather arresting cartouche in the lower left, with a dramatic scene featuring numerous emblems of Greek antiquity.

Condition Description
Old color. Slight abrasion around lower centerfold.
Jean Lattré Biography

Jean Lattré (fl. 1743-1793) was a Parisian bookseller and engraver who published many maps, plans, globes, and atlases. He worked closely with other important French cartographers, including Janvier, Bonne, and Delamarche, as well as other European mapmakers, such as William Faden, Santini, and Zannoni. Lattré is also interesting due to his propensity to bring suits against those who copied his work; plagiarism was common practice in eighteenth-century cartography and mapmakers struggled to maintain proprietary maps and information.