1773 TURKEY IN EUROPE BALKANS ANTIQUE MAP BY JOHN GIBSON 246 YEARS OLD
Item History & Price
This beautiful map is from A New System of Geography by D. Fenning and J. Collyer, published by J. Payne and J. Johnson, London, 1773.This is an original copper plate engraved map which is printed on one side only and measures 36 cm x 22 cm. This is an original antique which is 246 years old. John Gibson (flourished in London 1750 to his death in 1792) was an English cartographer, geographer, draughtsman and engraver.Recognized as an important late eighteenth-century British carto...grapher, a contemporary of Jacques-Nicolas Bellin and skilled engraver, spent most of his life in prison because of several debts, however, produced thousands of maps and its best-known work in 1758 was called the pocket atlas Atlas Minimus. He worked also for the Gentleman's Magazine for which engraved different decorative maps. He also published his own work in The Universal Magazine of Knowledge and Pleasure, The Universal Museum and The Universal Traveller.Please check my other listings for more antique maps, antique prints and antiquarian books and atlases.
