The Course of the Rhine from Strasbourg to Worms; lower Alsace and Baden; the Palatinate of the Rhine

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Identifier: id189552

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Scope and Contents

(Wright French Map No. 11)

Le Cours du Rhin depuis Strasbourg jusqu'a Worms et les Pays adiacens

[The Course of the Rhine from Strasbourg, to Worms and the adjacent country.]

Portion of the Rhine River Valley between Strasbourg and Worms; Lower Alsace and Baden; the Palatine of the Rhine. Relief shown pictorially.

Guillaume Del'Isle, Geographger of the Royal Academy of Sciences - geographer

J. Covens & C. Mortier, Amsterdam - publisher

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

49 cm x 63 cm

1 : 256,000

Manuscript note in lower right hand corner: "Note: The lines Spirbach (from Neustadt to Spire) were built by Prince of Baden in 1701; He built [?] on [?] shortly after."

Map appears in atlas titled : Atlas nouveau, contenant toutes les parties su Monde, ou sont exactement remarquees les empires, monarchies, 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.

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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