Mayence, Electorate, and the Lower Palatinate; part of Hesse

Item — Oversize_Folder: 6

Identifier: id188450

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Scope and Contents

(Wright French Map No. 5)

L’electorat de Mayence, le bas palatinat et une Partie du Pays de Hesse et de la Rivière de Mein, représentant ensemble les parties du Cercle Occidental de Franconie, savoir le plus basse Partie de l’ Evêché de Wurtzbourg, le Comté de Wertheim, Reineck, Hohenlo , Erpach &c. Dressée sur les Memoires le plus noveaux.

[The electorate of Mainz, the Lower Palatinate and part of the country of Hesse and the Mein River together representing the parts of the western circle of Franconia, namely the lowest part of the Würzburg Bishopric, County Wertheim, Reineck , Hohenlo, Erpach & Drawn on the newest Memoirs]

Roads shown. Relief shown pictorially.

I. Condet - engraver

J. Covens & C. Mortier, Amsterdam - publisher

copper engraving, hand-colored, elaborate cartouche, linen backed folding map of 4 sheets

59 cm x 47 cm

1 : 437,500

Title in upper margin: Altera et minor pars totius illustrissimi Franconiae circuli, simulae archiepiscopatus et electoratus Moguntini atque ceteri Franconiae status ut sunt comitatus Wertheim, Reinek ac Erpach, finitimus que inferior Palatinatus Rheni inhac tabula ostenduntur

[The other, and only a small proportion of the whole of the most illustrious of Franconia of a circle at the same time as they are of the county court of the archbishopric and the state of the Electorate of Mainz, Wertheim, and the rest of Franconia, Reineke, and the Erpach, closely related to the board, which are shown to be inferior to the Rhine and the Palatinate.]

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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