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Rigobert Bonne: Carte de L'Arabie, du Golfe Persique et de lat Mer Rouge, avec L'Egypte, La Nubie et L'Abissinie.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Rigobert Bonne  (1727–1794)  wikidata:Q721492
 
Alternative names
epiphane
Description French cartographer
Date of birth/death 6 October 1727 Edit this at Wikidata 1795
Location of birth/death Raucourt (Ardennes) Paris
Work location
Pontault-Combault Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q721492
Title
Carte de L'Arabie, du Golfe Persique et de lat Mer Rouge, avec L'Egypte, La Nubie et L'Abissinie.
Description
English: This is an attractive map of Arabia, northwestern Africa, Ethiopia (Absynnia) and the Red Sea by the mapmaker Rigobert Bonne, c. 1780. Towns, churches, cities and mountains are depicted as miniature representations of themselves. This map is highly detailed and beautifully crafted.
Date 1780
date QS:P571,+1780-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Dimensions height: 8.5 in (21.5 cm); width: 12 in (30.4 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,8.5U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,12U218593
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Geographicus link: Arabia-bonne-1780
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