Map of Gibraltar & The Siege of 1727 Printed Area Measurement_36 x 46 cm George Everest) pp

George Everest) pp

assiegee et prise par les Troupes auxillaires de France et de Saxe […]

October 1939

Ortelius's Theatrum Orbis Terrarum is generally considered the first modern atlas of the world

Several plates in our example have 1816-dated watermarks

Map of Gibraltar & The Siege of 1727 Printed Area Measurement_36 x 46 cm George Everest) ppThe Bay of Gibraltar. With a plan of the Town, Rocks and Fortifications of Gibraltar as they now are. Also a plan of Algezira Copied from the Draught of his Excellency the Marquis Verboom, Engineer General to the Spanish Army This map of Gibraltar may be one of Wilkinsons earliest publications, printed as a companion to his reissue of Several Prospects of the Rock, Town, Castle, Fortifications, & Bay of Gibraltar, which he seems to have inherited with