Kaeppelin et Cie (sold)
Kaeppelin et Cie (fl. c. 1839 - 1860) was a Parisian publisher of prints and maps based at 15 Quai Voltaire. It appears to have developed an expertise in works dealing with the Anglophone world, including North America and Australia.
Hydrographic projects on the River Nile, and the Prospective Suez Canal.
Carte Hydrographique de la Basse Égypte/ Carte Hydrographique de la Moyenne Égypte/Carte Hydrographique de la Partie Septentrionale de la Haute Egypte/ Carte Hydrographique de la Partie Méridionale de la Haute Egypte.
sold
This is a set of four large, superbly detailed maps of Egypt by Linant de Bellefonds, detailing the course of the River Nile and the prospective routes of the Suez Canal. The four maps are on a uniform scale and were sold a group by Paris mapseller Lanée, to American congregationalist preacher and professor Roswell Dwight Hitchcock, probably in 1869 in preparation for that avid traveler's 1870 visit to Egypt. These were easily the most detailed maps to cover the Egyptian Nile available at that time, and their rich detail of ancient and reference to Biblical monuments would have been compelling. Taken together, the maps illuminate the Nile continuously from the Mediterranean Sea to the cataracts upstream of Aswan. (more details)