An impressive Austrian edition of Lopez's map of Iberia for the Peninsula War

LOPEZ, Thomas.

Carte de L'Espagne et du Portugal d'apres Lopez. Neueste General Carte von Spanien und Portugal in VI. Blättern, Nach den astronomischen Beobachtungen und Karten des Karten des Herrn Thomas Lopez.
Vienna: Artaria and Co., 1808. Original colour. Six sheets conjoined, dissected and laid on linen, as issued, total 1340 x 1410mm.

A little surface soiling.

A highly-detailed wall map of Spain and Portugal, after Don Thomas Lopez de Vargas Machuca (1730-1802), Geographer to the King of Spain.
This Austrian edition was published the year that Joseph-Napoleon Bonaparte, Napoleon's older brother, was proclaimed king of Spain as José I, and British troops landed in Iberia under Sir Arthur Wellesley, later the Duke of Wellington.


Stock ID : 20671