PIERRE JEAN FRANÇOIS TURPIN (FRENCH, 1775 - 1840). Trumpet Flower. maps asia Claudius Ptolemaeus was a second-century

Claudius Ptolemaeus was a second-century philosopher living in Roman Alexandria in Egypt

the Evans map is the only of the three to have been published in America by an American

This represents a singular opportunity to obtain a striking and unusual map by a prominent Venetian cartographer

in the far northwest

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PIERRE JEAN FRANÇOIS TURPIN (FRENCH, 1775 - 1840). Trumpet Flower. maps asia Claudius Ptolemaeus was a second-centuryPIERRE JEAN FRANOIS TURPIN (FRENCH, 1775 1840) Solandra Longiflora Trumpet Flower Preparatory drawing for F. R. Tussac. Flore des Antilles, ou histoire gnrale botanique, rurale et economique des vgtaux indignes des Antilles. Paris: chez lauteur, F. Schoell et Hautel, 1808 1827 Vol. 2, Plate 12 Watercolor and pencil on paper Paper size: Tussac wrote of this plant: The traveler most indifferent to the beauties of nature stops spontaneously, when he