BOX 21-01-25 DENMARK 1762 THOMAS SALMON & JOHN GIBSON UNUSUAL ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED MAP ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED MAP OF DENMARK 1762 BY SALMON Condition: --not specified Ended: Nov 14, 2023 21:13:37 PST Winning bid: US $18.50 DENMARK 1762 THOMAS SALMON & JOHN GIBSON UNUSUAL ANTIQUE COPPER ENGRAVED MAP Description Denmark. Description: Striking and highly detailed interesting 1762 Thomas Salmon's copper engraved map of Denmark. The map includes also part of the coaslines of Sweden and Germany. Notes cities, towns, rivers, lakes, fjords, hills and islands. A rococo-style title cartouche, a mileage scale and a compass rose adorn the map. The map has been engraved by John Gibson for Thomas Salmon "The Universl TRaveller...". Source: Thomas Salmon. The Universal Traveller: or, a Compleat Description Of the several Foreign Nations of the World ... Brought down to the present Time. London: Richard Baldwin, 1762-1759. Date: 1762 ( undated ) Dimension: Paper size approx.: cm 35,1 x 29,4 Condition: Very strong and dark impression on good paper. Paper with chains. Map uncolored. Short top and lower margins. Right lateral margin cut very shortly. Wide left lateral margins. Corners partially missing. Small foxing. Small hole affecting the map repaired on the verso. Map folded. Conditions are as you can see in the images. Mapmaker: John Gibson flourished in London from 1748 to 1773. He was most likely born ca. 1724. As a young man he was apprenticed to John Blunbell of the Stationers Company, and then to John Pine. He was made free of the Company in 1748. Gibson proved a talented geographer and engraver who produced numerous maps, especially for books and magazines. He worked in collaboration with other map sellers such as Emanuel Bowen and John Roque. His best-known work was the pocket atlas, The Atlas Minimus (1758). Although little is known about his life beyond his publications, he was imprisoned for debt in King’s Bench from May to June of 1765. Writer: Thomas Salmon (1679–1767) was an English historical and geographical writer. Born at Meppershall in Bedfordshire, and baptised there on 2 February 1679, was son of Thomas Salmon, by his wife Katherine, daughter of John Bradshaw; Nathanael Salmon was his elder brother. William Cole wrote that he wrote much of his work in Cambridge, where he ran a coffee house, and then moved to London. He told Cole that he had spent time at sea, and in both the East and West Indies for some time. He also travelled in Europe. In 1739–40 Salmon accompanied George Anson on his voyage round the world. He died on 20 January 1767.