Morden's Map of Suffolk Printed Area Measurement_27.5 x 35 cm contemporary gilt-ruled sprinkled calf

contemporary gilt-ruled sprinkled calf

Niebuhr was the sole survivor of the Royal Danish Arabia Expedition of 1761-1767

Insets include Mumbai

slight toning to right of centrefold

is described as “a very strong lusty man

Morden's Map of Suffolk Printed Area Measurement_27.5 x 35 cm contemporary gilt-ruled sprinkled calfRobert Morden's country maps, like this one of Suffolk, were engraved to illustrate Gibson's edition* of William Camden's Britannia. Camden was an Elizabethan historian who wrote a county by county description of England. An illustrated edition of Camdens work with maps by Kip and Hole was published in 1607, but by the late seventeenth century it had become scarce and expensive. Gibson completely revised the text and commissioned new maps from Morden,