TIRION, Isaak – NIEUWE KAART van ‘t Eiland MALTHA met GOZO en COMINO – 1761

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TIRION, Isaak – 1761

Title of Map: NIEUWE KAART / van ‘t Eiland / MALTHA / met / GOZO en COMINO

Cartographer: Isaak Tirion.

Title: Hedendaagse Historie, of Tegenwoordige

Year: 1761

Imprint: Te Amsterdam by IS. TIRION. / 1761.

Engraving size: 280x 455mm

Printing method: copper engraving.

Published 1761, during the invasion scare.

Description: Tirion copied faithfully the map made by Guillaume Delisle [De L’Isle] (1675-1726) and engraved by Claude-Auguste de Berey (c. 1651-1732) for L’Abbe De Vertot’s Histoire des Chevaliers Hospitaliers de S. Jean de Jerusalem… et aujourd’hui les Chevaliers de Malte published in Paris in 1726.