Index Map of Germany

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Identifier: id238835

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Scope and Contents

Index Map of Germany, 1742 L'Allemagne. Dressée sur les Observations de Tycho-Braché, de Kepler de Snellius sur celles de Messieurs de l'academie Royal des Sciences &c. sur Zeiller et autres anciens ou modernes.

[Germany. Prepared on the Observations of Tycho-Braché, Kepler of Snellius on those of Gentlemen of the Royal Academy of Sciences etc, on Zeiller and other ancient or modern authors. Royal Academy of Sciences etc, on Zeiller and other ancient or modern authors.]

Covers the Low Countries, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Slovenia, Bohemia and western Poland and Hungary. Relief shown pictorially.

Guillaume Del'Isle, Amsterdam - cartographer

J. Condet - sculptor

J. Covens and C. Mortier, Amsterdam - publishers

copper envgraving

hand colored

decorative cartouches

linen backed folding map of 4 sheets

52 cm x 62 cm

1 : 2,500,000

Title in upper margin: Nova Imperii Germanici Descripto in Omnes Suos Circulos Electoratus [A new German Empire described it to all his electoral circles]

Includes "Avertissement" - naming the colored legislative entitiieis on the maps Map appears in atlas titled : Atlas nouveau, contenant toutes les parties su Monde, ou sont exactement remarquees les empires, monarchi royaumes, etats, republiques, &c. Par Guillaume de l'Isle. Premier Geographe de sa Majeste. A Amsterdam, Chez Jean Covens & Corneille Mortier, sur le Vygendam. 1742.

Map inscribed by John Womack Wright with numbered areas designating the other maps of regions of Germany in the collection

Dates

Creation: circa 1675-1918

Creator

From the Collection: Wright, John Womack, 1876-1953 (Collector, Person)
From the Collection: Blaeu, Willem Janszoon, 1571-1638 (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: Homann, Johann Baptist, 1663-1724 (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: L'Isle, Guillaume de, 1675-1726 (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: Lotter, Tobias Conrad, 1717-1777 (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: Saint Helene, Placide de (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: Senex, John, d. 1740 (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: Seutter, Matthaeus, 1678-1756 (Cartographer, Person)
From the Collection: Visscher, Nicolaes, 1649-1702 (Cartographer, Person)

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