{"title":"Martin, Claude-Emanuel","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"grundris-der-stadte-constantinopel-constantinople-istanbul-niebuhr-1773-map-p-6-111789","title":"Grundris der Städte Constantinopel—Constantinople—Istanbul—Niebuhr 1773 map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eGrundris der Städte Constantinopel, Galata und Scudar [Plan of the cities of Constantinople, Galata and Scutari]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eA valuable measured traveller’s plan of Ottoman Constantinople, Galata and Scutari from Niebuhr’s Reisebeschreibung. Niebuhr did not intend a full street-by-street survey: the plan records the city outlines and the position of principal gates, mosques, markets, embassies, waterworks and military sites, based on compass bearings and pacing. The key identifies Hagia Sophia, the Sultan Ahmed Mosque and Hippodrome, the Seraglio, the Porte, Janissary quarters, aqueduct, cemeteries, embassies and numerous gates around the city walls and Galata. The original explanatory text pages are not available with this map, but we include a legend sheet transcribing the original German key with English translation.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53342830100827,"sku":"P-6-111789","price":200.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-6-111789a.jpg?v=1780947930"},{"product_id":"hieroglyphs-on-an-obelisk-at-constantinople-niebuhr-martin-1773-old-print-p-6-111790","title":"Hieroglyphs on an obelisk at Constantinople—Niebuhr\/Martin 1773 old print","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eHieroglyphen auf einem Obelisk zu Constantinopel [Hieroglyphs on an obelisk at Constantinople]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn antiquarian plate recording the hieroglyphic inscriptions on the Egyptian obelisk in Constantinople’s Hippodrome, together with the monument’s form and details. Such plates are especially interesting because they predate the decipherment of hieroglyphs, preserving inscriptions as carefully copied visual evidence rather than as readable text. The obelisk, transported from Egypt to the heart of the Byzantine and later Ottoman capital, embodies the movement of ancient monuments across empires. Niebuhr’s expedition valued accurate copying and measurement, and this plate belongs to that documentary tradition. It should appeal to collectors of Egyptology, Constantinople, classical antiquity and the history of scholarship, as well as to those interested in early European attempts to record ancient scripts. It has particular resonance within the pre-history of Egyptological decipherment.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53342830166363,"sku":"P-6-111790","price":45.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-6-111790a.jpg?v=1780947928"},{"product_id":"nili-brachia-ambo-majora-cum-oppidis-et-vicis-nile-delta-niebuhr-martin-1773-map-p-6-111796","title":"Nili Brachia Ambo Majora cum Oppidis et Vicis…Nile Delta—Niebuhr\/Martin 1773 map","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003eNili Brachia Ambo Majora cum Oppidis et Vicis in utraque ripa sitis [The two great branches of the Nile with towns and villages situated on both banks]\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eA substantial folding map of the Nile Delta, concentrating on the two principal branches and the towns and villages along their banks. Cairo, Alexandria, Rosetta, Damietta and numerous smaller settlements are brought together in a practical geographical framework, with Arabic and European place-names reflecting Niebuhr’s linguistic and cartographic ambitions. The map is among the most desirable plates in this early section of the work, because it combines major Egyptian locations, river geography and Enlightenment-era field observation. It offers a useful corrective to more decorative but less precise European maps of Egypt. For collectors, the subject has strong crossover appeal: Egypt, the Nile, Alexandria, Cairo, Rosetta and the mapping of Arabic toponyms.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53342830723419,"sku":"P-6-111796","price":180.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-6-111796a.jpg?v=1780947933"},{"product_id":"einige-egyptische-alterthumer-scarab-hieroglyphs-niebuhr-martin-1773-old-print-p-6-111797","title":"Einige egyptische Alterthümer—scarab hieroglyphs—Niebuhr\/Martin 1773 old print","description":"\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e'Some Egyptian antiquities'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"left\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eA fascinating antiquarian plate from Niebuhr’s Egyptian observations, showing five recorded antiquarian details: an inscription on a glazed sherd, perhaps part of a pot lid; an inscription copied from a scarab seen in Mr Rigo’s collection at Basra; a fine scarab from the ruins of Atrib \/ Athribis, shown life-size; the engraved underside of that scarab; and a hieroglyphic stone from Salhadjar, found before an oil press, with incised outer signs and raised central figures. Published decades before the decipherment of hieroglyphs, the plate captures Egyptian antiquities at the stage of empirical collecting, copying and puzzled interpretation. The original explanatory text pages are not available, but we include a legend sheet with German transcription and English translation.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53342830821723,"sku":"P-6-111797","price":41.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0923\/9583\/1643\/files\/P-6-111797a.jpg?v=1780947937"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.antiquemapsandprints.com\/collections\/martin-claude-emanuel.oembed","provider":"Antiquemapsandprints.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}