Le Golfe de Venise Bird Type_Cranes Thornton exhausted his fortune on

Thornton exhausted his fortune on the book’s production

One of the most important editions of Ptolemy

with a globe and sphere hanging beneath

a Danish explorer in Russian employ

was Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae

Le Golfe de Venise Bird Type_Cranes Thornton exhausted his fortune onNicolas De Fer Le Golfe de Venise Paris 1720 24 x 21 inches Nice example of De Fer's scarce map of the Gulf of Venice, Adriatic and contiguous parts of the Balkans, etc. A fine decorative map, including 5 coats of arms, table and a highly detailed treatment of the region, engraved by Starkman. Nicholas de Fer (1646 1720) was the son of a map seller, Antoine de Fer, and grew to be one of the most well known mapmakers in France in the seventeenth