Morden's Map of Suffolk Printed Area Measurement_27.5 x 35 cm Le Pik de Teneriffe/De Piek-Bergh

Le Pik de Teneriffe/De Piek-Bergh op het Eilant Tenerifto

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

is described as “a very strong lusty man

and character of the inhabitants: and demonstrating the importance of these valuable islands to the British Empire

Morden's Map of Suffolk Printed Area Measurement_27.5 x 35 cm Le Pik de Teneriffe/De Piek-BerghRobert 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,