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Antique Maps by Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville

Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville (1697–1782) was the greatest cartographer of the classical world in the eighteenth century. Geographer to the King of France, he rebuilt ancient geography from primary sources, discarding the inherited errors of earlier maps. His maps of the Roman Empire, Greece and the ancient world remained the scholarly standard for over a century.