Upper Rhine, Circle of

Item — Oversize_Folder: 7

Identifier: id189813

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Scope and Contents

(Wright Germany Map No. 16)

Mappa Circuli Rhenani Superioris : in quo oculis sistuntur Landgraviatus Hasso-Cassellanus, Darmstadiensis Rhenofeldensis, Abbatia Fuldensis. Principatus Waldeckensis et Hischfelt Comitatg Nassau Weilburg, Usingen, Wisbaden, Idstein, Solomensis. Hanoviensis, Isenberg Sup. Wittgenstein, Hazfeld, Westerb et Hachenberg. Urbes Imperiales Francosort, Fridberg, Wezlar et Gelenhausen.

[A map of Upper Rhine groups, presenting Landgraviatus Hesse-Cassel Darmstadina Rhenofeldensis, and Abbatia. And the governments Waldeckensis Hischfelt Comitatg Nassau Weilburg, Usingen, Wisbaden, Idstein, Solomensis. Hanoviensis, Isenberg Sup. Wittgenstein, Hazfeld, Westerb and Hachenberg. Francosort imperial cities, Fridberg, Wezlar and Gelenhausen.]

Shows cities and towns, place names, rivers, forests and mountains. Relief shown pictorially.

Matthäus Seutter, Augsburg - geographer

Matthäus Seutter, Augsburg - publisher

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

50 cm x 58 cm

1 : 460,000

"Warning" in lower right hand corner as to the usage if the city names on the map.

Map appears in atlas titled: Atlas minor praecipua orbis terrarum imperia, Regna et Provincias, Germaniae Potissimum, tabellis 50 exacte declineatis sistens usui militiae ducum ac peregrinantium maxime accomodatus opera Matthaei Seutteri

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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