1719 Chatelain Large Antique Print of Egypt Pyramids, & Source of the Nile River Botanical Both Cary\'s and Arrowsmith\'s plates

Both Cary\'s and Arrowsmith\'s plates were used by other publishers until far into the next century and

Ref #:  21603

The idea was not seriously challenged in biology until the German biologist August Weismann did so in the 1880s

Pliny the Elder wrote that the Nile had its origins in a mountain of lower Mauretania

1719 Chatelain Large Antique Print of Egypt Pyramids, & Source of the Nile River Botanical Both Cary\'s and Arrowsmith\'s platesTitle : Description Du Nil. Des Sources de son Cours Depuis Les Catactes. Size: 20in x 17 1 2in (510mm x 440mm) Condition: (A+) Fine Condition Date : 1719 Ref #: 50651 Description: This large original copper plate engraved antique print of views of the Pyramids, ruins and the Nile River, speculating on the source (not known until the mid 19th century) was published by Henri Abraham Chatelain in 1719, in his famous Atlas Historique. General