{"product_id":"9780197144060","title":"The True Description of Cairo: A Sixteenth-Century Venetian View","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 1549 a Venetian printmaker, Matteo Pagano, published a large engraving of an aerial view of the city of Cairo; it was accompanied by a Latin text (\"Descriptio Alchiriae\") written by the orientalist scholar, Guillaume Postel. The depiction of the city is sufficiently accurate to permit a detailed interpretation of the city to be made, and it remained the standard western representation of this fabled eastern city for the next 250 years. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNicholas Warner provides a context for Pagano's view of Cairo, a translation of Postel's text, and a commentary on the contents of the engraving itself in addition to the accompanying narrative. An index of subsequent revisions, and a superbly produced enhanced facsimile of the engraving itself is included.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eVolume 1 (208 pages) includes 36 large color plates, 5 black-and-white plates, and a modern facsimile of the original Latin text \"Descriptio Alchiriae\"; Volume 2 (208 pages) includes 68 black-and-white images, all details of the map. Volume 3—the map—is a \"modern facsimile\" of the original Map, i.e. with blemishes, etc. removed, packed in a slip case. It is the same size as the original, and folds out in a similar manner to an ordnance survey map. It is printed in two colors to match the original.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47022867546352,"sku":"9780197144060","price":475.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780197144060_p0.jpg?v=1763665187","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780197144060","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}