Greece Islands Published 1822
Map of Ancient Greece Islands PELOPONNESUS ET GRAECIA MERIDIONALIS c1822. Engraved by Sidney HallFor: Samuel Butler's "An Atlas of Ancient Geography" Published: By Longman & Co, Paternoster Row c1822. Engraved By Sydney Hall. Bury Street Bloomsbury. "A Collection of Old colour maps of the Ancient World"
Good condition, with original outline and later wash colour, some age tone. Fold as issued, blank to verso. Engraved area approx: 7" x 9.75" (180mm x 225mm)
Sidney Hall was a British engraver and cartographer well known and popular for his early nineteenth century atlases containing maps of the United Kingdom and of the ancient world reproduced from Hall's engravings. Hall made engravings for a number of international atlases at a time when cartography and atlases were very popular. Hall engraved maps for William Faden, Aaron Arrowsmith, and Chapman & Hall, among many others.
A Genuine antique map over 190 years old.