CHART OF THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA.  John Thomson

Drawn & Engraved for Thomson's New General Atlas 1817

John Thomson (1777-a.1840) was a famous scottish cartographer born in Edinburgh.

The map includes charts of major harbours:

Bay & Road of Marseilles
The harbour of Genoa
Rock and Bay of Gibraltar
Leghorn Road
Sketch of the Watering Place of  Algeziras
Algiers
Smyrna

Dim.: 54x65 cm the engraved part

State of conservation: very good, beautiful coeval coloring. Countersunk with light paper. Two small woodworm holes compensated.