Antique Map, Classical, Geography, "Lybia according to Herodotus", Christopher Browne, London c.1725

 A map featuring the Mediterranean Sea (four island, the larger named in pencil as Malta), and Lybia. Mount Atlas is named and the "Tropick of Cancer" (Tropic of Cancer). Atalantes the antient Greeks considered the most civilized people of that region, and Garamantes, who may have descended from Berber tribes, Toubou tribes, and Saharan pastoralists. Here the reference of a  Herodotus quote about Garamantes Tribe seems appropriate: "A ten days' journey from the Garamantes there is another salt hill and spring. It is the home of the Atarantes, who alone of all nations use no names. (collectively they are known as Atarantes, but no individual is given a particular name). They curse the sun when it rises high, and abuse it in the foulest terms, because it burns and wastes both the people theselves and their land."

Antique copper-plate engraving on laid paper with original hand colouring, for Christopher Browne's folio "The Geography of the Antients sofar as describ'd as is contained in the Greek and Latin Claffics (Classics) in The Maps of the Old World and its several Kingdoms and Provinces..."  printed London 1725, "A Collection long wanted, and now Publish'd for the Use of Schools"

Condition = Excellent with no grime, foxing mold, tears. Printed on Laid paper folded in middle preparing it for binding. Plate mark complete .

Size of Page= 265 x 180mm / Size of Plate mark = 162 x 232mm

Christopher Browne, map maker/print-seller flourished between 1688 -1725, having taken over the print-selling business of Robert Walton on his death. It had been Walton's apprentice in 1683. Browne  may have come from a family of minor gentry. He seems to have done well in business, having two shops at the height of his career from which he retired to live the life of a gentleman. In retirement he grew vines and corresponded with the founder of the British Museum, Sir Hans Sloane.