DUFOUR

PLAN OR MAP OF CITY OF ISTANBUL

A.H. DUFOUR

c.1850

25.5 x 20.5 cm.

Adolphe Hippolyte DUFOUR (1795-1865), also known as Auguste-Henri Dufour, was a Paris based map and atlas publisher active in the middle to late 19th century. Dufour claimed to be a student of another French. cartographer, Emile Lapie. He is known to have worked with numerous other French cartographers, publishers and engravers of the period including Andriveau-Goujon, Charles Dyonnet, and Duvotenay. His corpus includes. numerous maps and atlases, the most striking of which is probably his monumental elephant folio Atlas Universal Physique, Historique. et Politique Geographie Ancienne et Moderne. Dufour’s student and successor was Alexandre Vuillemin.