Sahab's Map of Tehran Mapmaker(s)_Petrus Schenk His biographer Alan Ereira explores

His biographer Alan Ereira explores Ogilby's earlier incarnations in The Nine Lives of John Ogilby as a dancing master

Froben had made Basel a centre for the priting of Greek and Latin texts

and carries the price at the foot of the page: ‘The price in sheets at the press

Printed area measures 53 x 65 cm

' it documents favorite books that had inspired him intellectually

Sahab's Map of Tehran Mapmaker(s)_Petrus Schenk His biographer Alan Ereira exploresThis map of Tehran features a legend in the borders listing 218 places of interest in the pre Revolutionary city. The mapmakers own premises are identified within a red oval in the right hand part of the map. Abbas (1921 2000) was encouraged by his father and his teachers to draft maps from a remarkably young age: considered by many as the father of modern Persian cartography he established the SGDI [Sahab Geographic and Drafting Institute] in 1936