Whole of Ireland

19x24 cm

PUBLISHED IN THE USA

IRELAND
Engraved by R. Campbell Philad.^a 
Boston. Published by S.Walker.

Conrad Malte-Brun (1775-1826) Born in Denmark, he became a political activist, was exiled in 1799 and moved to France beginning a carreer in geography and cartography and with French geographer Edme Mentelle produced Geographie mathematique, physique et Politique...1803-1812. He died in Paris in 1826 while drafting the final version of his major 8 volume work Precis de Geographie Universelle ou Description de Toutes les parties du Monde Paris 1810-1829.

From an American edition of System of Geography by Malte-Brun published by Samuel Walker, Boston 1828.

Good hand coloured example.