Upper Rhine Circle

Item — Oversize_Folder: 7

Identifier: id189849

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Scope and Contents

(Wright Germany Map No. 26)

Circulus Rhenanus Superior in quo sunt Landgraviattus Hasso-Casselensis Darmstadiensis et Rhemofeldensus Abbatia Fuldensis Principatus Waldeck et Hirshfeld Comitatus Nassau-Weiburg Usingen Wisbaden et Idstein Solomsis Hanoviensis Isenburgensis Superior Witgenstein Hatsfeld Westerburg et Hachenburg Urbes Imperiales Franckfurt, Fridberg, Wetzlar et Gelenhausen

[Superior circle of the Rhine where they Landgraviattus Hesse-Casselanensis Darmstadina and Rhemofeldensus and Abbatia government of Waldeck and Hirshfeld County of Nassau-Usingen Weiburg Wisbaden and Idstein Solomsis Hanoviensis Isenburgensis higher Witgenstein Hatsfeld Westerburg and hemburg imperial cities of Lyon, Fridberg, Wetzlar and Gelenhausen]

Regional map of Germany, centered on Landgraviatis and a significant portion of the Rhine River. Relief Shown pictorially.

Johann Baptist Homann, Nuremberg - cartographer

Johann Baptist Homann, Nuremberg - publisher

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

49 cm x 58 cm

1 : 465,000

Cartouche displays coats of arms of the territories shown on the map

Map appears in a " Composite Atlas of Maps" primarily by Homann, but also Seutter, Lotter, and others.

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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