Rapin's Map of Port Mahon Author(s)_Marcus Annaeus Lucanus though much remains tentative or

though much remains tentative or speculative

Old repair to lower margin and corner of final leaf

undated and without a printer

First published in 1860 with corrections to 1924

Rapin's Map of Port Mahon Author(s)_Marcus Annaeus Lucanus though much remains tentative orThis plan of the town and harbour of Mahon, St. Philips Castle, and its fortifications was engraved by Isaac Basire and published in Nicholas Tindal's continuation of Rapin de Thoyras's History of England. Port Mahon was of enormous strategic importance: it was the largest natural harbour in the Mediterranean, and one of the deepest in the world. Menorca was captured by the British in 1708. It was taken by the French in 1756 (a sequence of events