This well engraved birds-eye two-part view of Cairo in Egypt is taken from across the River Nile and is from Cornelis Le Bruyn's 'Voyage au Levant'. De Bruyn was a Dutch traveller and painter who spent the years 1678 to 1685 in the Levant. He was primarily a landscape artist and this is manifested in the magnificent panoramas found in the book. Blackmer 225; Cohen de Ricci 610; Nordenskiold Collection 3.358.