Very scarce composite plate with separate maps of Minorca (157 x 173 mm)
and Gibraltar (110 x 106 mm), the principal acquisitions of the British in the Mediterranean from the Treaty of Utrecht (1713).

It is assumed that the plate was first engraved in 1713 or 1714; the only example of this first state encountered came from the Macclesfield's collection. The joint imprint of Moll and John King sr. places this printing in the mid-1720s, no doubt during the sie...