Middle East: Dutch map depicting 'the Holy Land' by Pieter Mortier (1661-1711), Cornell University Library, Ithaca, 1700

Pieter Mortier (1661-1711) was a Dutch engraver and mapmaker from the Northern Netherlands. He was born in Leiden, and travelled to Paris in 1681-1685, eventually winning the privilege in 1690 to publish atlases and maps by French publishers in Amsterdam, where he would die.

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