Le Golfe de Venise Bird Type_Cranes Thornton exhausted his fortune on

Thornton exhausted his fortune on the book’s production

Height 16 in

was Illustrations of the Family of Psittacidae

To the far east

He titled many of the works with common and scientific names and noted their sources

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