Middle East/East Africa: A New Map of Arabia, Egypt, Abyssinia and the Red Sea. Engraving by John Cary (c. 1754-1835), 1811. John Cary was an English cartographer. Cary served his apprenticeship as an engraver in London, before setting up his own business in the Strand in 1783. He soon gained a reputation for his maps and globes, his atlas, The New and Correct English Atlas published in 1787, becoming a standard reference work in England. In 1794 Cary was commissioned by the Postmaster General to survey England's roads. This resulted in Cary's New Itinerary (1798).

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