[f. Gr. τοπογράφ-ος topographer + -ER1. Cf. F. topographe (16th c. in Godef., Compl.).] One who is skilled in topography; one who describes or delineates a particular locality.
1603. Florio, Montaigne, I. xxx. (1632), 101. We had need of Topographers to make us particular narrations of the places they have beene in.
1625. N. Carpenter, Geog. Del., II. i. (1635), 2. Topographers, who spend their stocke in the description of some particular place or Region.
1774. Warton, Hist. Eng. Poetry, Diss. ii. (1840), I. p. cxxiv. Giraldus Cambrensis … was an historian, an antiquarian, a topographer,… and a poet.
1884. Manch. Exam., 18 July, 4/6. The Russian topographers are … correcting the existing maps.
