ARABIA IRAL MIDDLE EAST INDIA CENTRAL ASIA 1760 GIBSON UNUSUAL ANTIQUE MAP

A Map of Persia with the Eastern Frontiers and the Greatest Part of Turkey in Asia As teken from the Map of Mons.r de l'Isle Also the Moghols Empire, as Taken from Mr. Frasier's with the Addiction of part of Tartary. 

Description: Striking and highly detailed fine unusual 1760 John Gibson's copper engraved map of the Central Asia. Centered on Iran, depicts modern-daysArabian Peninsula western part of Turkey, Cyprus, Middle East, Georgia, Armenia, Crimean peninsula, a bit of Russia, part of Ukraine, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India and north part of Sri Lanka. The map notes cities, villages, towns, rivers, lakes, islands and reliefs. A large figurate title cartouhe, a compass rose and a mileage scale adorn the map.

Date: 1760 ( undated )

Dimension: Map size approx.: cm 52,9 x 44,9

Condition: Very strong and dark impression on good paper. Paper with chains. Map uncolored. Quite margin to the top. Lower margin missing. Wide right lateral margin. Left ateral margin, partially missing at the lower side and redone. Tear along the feft side restaured. Map heavy washed and restored. Map folded. Conditions are as you can see in the images. SOLD IN THE CONDITIONS.

Mapmaker: John Gibson (1724 – 1773) was an English map engraver active in London at the end of the 18th century. Gibson was the son of a locksmith. In 1739 he apprenticed to John Blundell as a stationer of Grub Street. Gibson proved a fine engraver and was much in demand by London map publishers. During his career he produced thousands of maps and was admired as a skilled engraver and sculptor. Among others, he engraved for Emanuel Bowen, Robert Sayer, Jean Palairet, John Rocque, Andrew Dury, and Benjamin Martin. His best known work was prepared in conjunction with Gentleman's Magazine. Gibson, sadly, was not as astute in his fiscal affairs as with the engravers pen and consequently spent much of his life consigned to debtor's prison.