SENEFELDER - CANARY ISLANDS - SPAIN - "GENERAL MAP of the Canary Islands drawn up by S. Berthelot according to the indications of Cap. De Frégate Don Domingo de Mesa", Paris, 1836. Lithograph printed by Adrien, in Paris. Chine paper applied on vellum. Proof with the following handwritten mention in brown ink: "Transport de pierre sur pierre non retouché / je garantis 2000 épreuves sur le transport / (signé) Adrien / par de Senefelder". Inscribed in grey pencil at the bottom right: "Succ. de A. Senefelder". During the second half of the 18th century, the need to reproduce images more conveniently than by engraving, the only process known until then, became more and more imperative. It was while searching for a new process of engraving on stone that the German Senefelder gradually developed, between 1796 and 1798, a revolutionary technique that allowed the printing of images without engraving them and that was to become lithography. 48,5 x 64 cm. Condition A (rare small marginal stains, slight trace of old vertical median fold).