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Rigobert Bonne: Carte deL'Arabie qui se divise en Arabie Petree, Deserte et Heureuse, Projettee en assujettie aux Observations Celestes.   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Rigobert Bonne  (1727–)  wikidata:Q721492
 
Description French cartographer
Date of birth/death 6 October 1727 Edit this at Wikidata 2 September 1794 / 29 November 1795 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Raucourt Edit this at Wikidata former 9th arrondissement of Paris Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q721492
Title
Carte deL'Arabie qui se divise en Arabie Petree, Deserte et Heureuse, Projettee en assujettie aux Observations Celestes.
Description
العربية: مِثالٌ جميل عن خارطة ريگوبرت بون المُزينة والعائدة إلى سنة 1771م والتي يُصوِّرُ فيها شبه الجزيرة العربيَّة. تُغطي هذه الخارطة المنطقة المُمتدَّة من ساحل البحر المُتوسِّط وُصولًا إلى المُحيط الهندي، ومن البحر الأحمر حتَّى الخليج العربي، شاملةً بذلك عدَّة دُول مُعاصرة هي: السُعوديَّة، وفلسطين، والأُردُن، والكُويت، والعراق، واليمن، وعُمان، والإمارات العربيَّة المُتحدة، والبحرين. كما تظهر فيها أسماء عدَّة مواقع، مثل: طور سيناء، ومكَّة المُكرَّمة، وبيت المقدس، بالإضافة إلى الكثير من المُدن والواحات الحضريَّة الأُخرى. لاحظ كذلك ما تمَّ الإشارة إليه من الشواطئ الضحلة والحُيود المرجانيَّة في كُلٍ من البحر الأحمر والخليج العربي. يظهرُ في الطرف الأيمن العُلوي من الخارطة خرطوشة عنوان مُزخرفة باليد. تُعتبرُ هذه الخريطة إحدى أروع خرائط المنطقة المُشار إليها المرسومة باليد في زمانها. راسمها هو الفرنسي ريگوبرت بون، وقد أتمها سنة 1771م وقد استُعملت في مُؤلّف جان لاتر لِسنة 1776م المُسمَّى «الأطلس المُعاصر».
English: A beautiful example of Rigobert Bonne's 1771 decorative map of the Arabian Peninsula. Covers from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean and from the Red Sea to the Persian Gulf. Includes the modern day nations of Saudi Arabia, Palestine, Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq, Yemen, Oman, the United Arab Emirates, and Bahrain. Names Mt. Sinai, Mecca and Jerusalem as well as countless other cities and desert oases. Also notes numerous offshore shoals, reefs, and other dangers in the Red Sea and the Persian Gulf. There is a large decorative title cartouche in the upper right hand quadrant. A fine map of the region. Drawn by R. Bonne in 1771 for issue as plate no. A 25 in Jean Lattre's 1776 issue of the Atlas Moderne .
Date 1771 (dated)
Dimensions height: 12.5 in (31.7 cm); width: 18.2 in (46.3 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,12.5U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,18.25U218593
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Geographicus link: Arabia-bonne-1771
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Lattre, Jean, Atlas Moderne ou Collection de Cartes sur Toutes les Parties du Globe Terrestre, c. 1775.

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