East Indies

Description

hand-coloured copper engraving.

Map from ‘Salmon’s Geography’, Jefferys was an outstanding cartographer & publisher whose productions ranged from 1 inch to 1 mile county maps to some of the finest maps of the time of North America & the West Indies. These are regarded as his most important works, many of which were published after his death by Sayer & Bennett, or by his business successor, William Faden. He was appointed Geographer to the Prince of Wales & to George III, enjoyed a very high reputation but failed to obtain much material reward.