DE L'ISLE,G. - Carte de L'Egypte de la Nubie de L'Abissinie..

Including the Arabian Peninsula. Giving good detail on Egypt. Engraved by Desrosiers. Address and date changed, now with the imprint "A Paris Chez l’Auteur sur le Quai de l’Horloge a l’Aigle d’Or avec Privilege pour 20 ans, Nov. 1707. (In early 1708 Delisle changed the sign over the shop to a l’Aigle d’Or, the golden eagle . This address appears on a few of his maps). The title is displayed along the top of the map.

Guillaume de L'Isle [Insulanus](1675-1726). French cartographer, pupil of Cassini, called father of modern geography. Member of the Academy of Sciences 1702. Premier Géographe de Roy 1718. Produced over 100 maps and atlases.
Maps were influential for many years after his death. De l'Isle eradicated as much as possible imaginary geography in his maps.