Map, Antique Print, Christopher Browne, Classical Geography, Baroque Era, Roman Empire, Julius Caesar

Title:"The Roman Empire as it was in the time of Julius Caesar and it is described in his Commentaries, and in Silius Italicus"

Technique: Antique copper-plate engraving on Laid Paper with original hand coloring, 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, no foxing mold, tears. Printed on Laid paper folded in middle preparing it for binding. Plate mark complete.

Size of Page= 26.5 x 18cm (10.5 x 7.2 inch) / Plate mark = 23.2 x 16.2 cm (9.3 x 6.5 inch)

Description: A map showing the Mediterranean geography at the time of the Roman Empire in Julius Caesar’s reign during AD 1. Of Europa - Spain, Gaul, Italy, Germania, Illyria, Dalmatia, Thracia, Troy, Mediterranean Islands of Balearides, Sardinia, Sicily, Creta, Rhodes, Cyprus. Asia in the East & Siria. Africa features Mauritania, “Libia”, Egypt. The Black Sea is named “Pontus Euxinus”.

Silius Italicus: Tiberius Catius Asconius Silius Italicus c.28-103 ADwas a Roman consul, orator, and Latin epic poet. Silius Italicus wrote a long epic poem, 'Punica', telling the story of the war of Hannibal against the Romans.

Christopher Browne: Map maker/print-seller flourished between 1688 -1712, having taken over the print-selling business of Robert Walton on his death. Browne had been Walton's apprentice in 1683. Christopher 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.