Map of Gibraltar & The Siege of 1727 Printed Area Measurement_36 x 46 cm

Map of Gibraltar & The Siege of 1727 Printed Area Measurement_36 x 46 cmThe 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

Several plates in our example have 1816-dated watermarks

then part of the Papal States

vetus descriptio

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

Müllhaupt

sheet size 73 x 55 cm

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

painted on vehicles for swift recognition

George Everest) pp

October 1939

a few early marginalia

At the time the map was made