Peru. Original antique map. Engraved by W R Gardner and published by Charles Smith in 1826. Original hand colouring.

Original antique copper engraved map
With original hand-colouring
Engraved by W.H. Gardner
Published by C. Smith, London, 1826

W R Gardner was a engraver and cartographer who worked with Charles Smith in London.

Charles Smith was a publisher, engraver as well as a map and globe seller working at No. 172 Strand, London from 1803 to 1862. From 1864 he was at 63 Charing Cross. A rival of John Cary producing very similar styled detailed maps. His fine New English Atlas published in 1804 was a model for Cary’s New English Atlas published five years later in 1809.