Copper plate engraving with no text on the verso, original wash color. Interesting to note that all of the towns and cities are listed on both sides of the map with a corresponding letter to its location and all can be located as one would on a modern road map.
Mathias Seutter (1678-1757) engraver, globe maker and map publisher worked out of Augsburg, Germany. He apprenticed under Johanne Baptiste Homann in Nuremberg 1697-1707, and returned to Augsburg in 1707.
Date:
1740-1750
Condition:
Heavy laid paper; a little toning in the centerfold top margin having an ample border.
ALL CITIES AND TOWNS ARE MARKED ON BOTH SIDES OF THE MAP WITH A CORRESPONDING LETTER TO EASILY LOCATE THESE PLACES WITHIN THE MAP. ORIGINAL WASH COLOR. NO TEXT ON VERSO.
RHINELAND. ELABORATELY COLORED CARTOUCHE. COPPERPLATE ENGRAVED PRINT ON VERY FINE PAPER; WASH COLOR. IOH. BAPTISTA HOMANN WORKED OUT OF NUREMBURG (1664-1724), WAS A SELF TAUGHT COPPERPLATE ENGRAVER FROM OKERKAMMLACH NEAR MINDELHEIM, SCHWABIA. ENGRAVED FOR DAVID FUNCK, JACOB VON SANDART AND OTHERS IN THE EARLY 1690'S THEN FOUNDED HIS OWN CARTOGRAPHIC PUBLISHING ESTABLISHMENT IN 1702.
ALL OF GERMANY. COPPER-PLATE ENGRAVING, HAND COLORED, TEXT ON VERSO IN LATIN. A VERY FINE MAP OF GERMANY PUBLISHED IN 1631 BY HENRI HONDIUS. HENDRICK HONDIUS (1597-1651) WAS A SON OF JODOCUS HONDIUS, THE ELDER. ASSISTED HIS MOTHER AND HIS BROTHER IN PUBLISHING AND PARTNER WITH HIS BROTHER-IN-LAW, JOHANNE JANSSON.
Two part map of the Elbe River, with north oriented to the upper left. Prague, Meissen and Wittenburg are shown in lower half. Hamburg, Lubeck and Meydburg in the upper section. Gold-leaf highlighting in cartouche and some larger towns. Beautifully engraved.
THIS MAP OF HOLSATIA INCLUDES HAMBURG. ORIGINAL COLOR; PUBLISHED BY FREDERICK DE WIT (1630-1706), PROLIFIC MAP PUBLISHER OUT OF AMSTERDAM WHOSE WORK ENCOMPASSED THE FULL RANGE OF CARTOGRAPHIC PRODUCTION, INCLUDING SEA AND WORLD ATLASES & TOWN BOOKS. HE ACQUIRED COPPERPLATES FROM BLAEU AND JANSSONIUS, AS WELL AS FROM ABRAHAM WOLFGANG. PUBLISHED MAPS AND ATLASES FROM ABOUT 1650'S UNTIL HIS DEATH.
BAVARIA GERMANY. WASH COLOR COPPER-PLATE ENGRAVED. NICOLAS VISSCHER (1618-1679) WORKED WITH HIS FATHER, CLAES AND CONTINUED THE BUSINESS. CLAES VISSCHER (1587-1652) FOUNDER OF THE FAMILY BUSINESS; FIRST PRODUCTION OF MAPS IN 1623.
PART OF POLAND AND SILESIA. COPPERPLATE ENGRAVED WORK ON LAID PAPER. PUBLISHED IN AMSTERDAM BY G. BLAEU, FAMOUS ENGRAVER & GLOBE MAKER, WAS ONE OF THE MOST TALENTED MAPMAKERS OF HIS TIME. HE STUDIED UNDER THE GREAT DANISH ASTRONOMER TYCHO BRAHE. BLAEU LIVED IN AMSTERDAM AND WAS A SURVEYOR FOR THE DUTCH EAST INDIA COMPANY. HE INVENTED A NEW PRESS AND WAS EXTREMELY PROLIFIC AS A HYDROGRAPHER, SURVEYOR, AND PUBLISHER OF CELESTIAL MAPS, TOWN MAPS AND LARGE WALL MAPS. ORIGINAL COLOR.
A VERY EARLY POSTAL MAP SHOWING ALL OF THE POST ROUTES OF GERMANY AND SURROUNDING AREAS. PUBLISHED IN NUREMBURG BY J.B.HOMANN. ENGRAVED COPPERPLATE MAP ON LAID PAPER; COLORED CARTOUCHE AND WASH COLOR ON MAP.
GERMANY AND RHINE RIVER. WASH COLOR; ELABORATE TITLE CARTOUCHE. PUBLISHED BY JOHANNE BAPTISTA HOMANN, A SELF_EDUCATED PUBLISHER WHO RE-ESTABLISHED MAP MAKING IN GERMANY AT THIS TIME; TRAINED BOTH MATTHIAS SEUTTER AND CONRAD LOTTER. HE WAS EXTREMELY PROLIFIC AND HIS COMPANY WAS TURNED OVER TO HIS HEIRS AFTER HIS DEATH IN 1724.
GERMANY LUSATIA. FULL FOLIO COPPERPLATE ENGRAVED MAP PUBLISHED & ENGRAVED BY J.B. HOMANN OF NUREMBURG, A SELF-TAUGHT PUBLISHER AND SURVEYOR (1664-1725); HIS HEIRS TOOK OVER THE BUSINESS, WHICH WENT UNDER THE NAME OF HOMANN HEIRS. IT WAS LATER TAKEN OVER BY FRANZ LUDVIG GUSSEFELD WHOSE PUBLICATIONS LASTED INTO THE 1820'S.
BRANDENBURG & POMERANIA. A COPPERPLATE ENGRAVED MAP ON LAID PAPER; PRODUCED IN NUREMBURG BY JOHANNE BAPTISTA HOMANN WHO WAS A VERY PROLIFIC, SELF TAUGHT PUBLISHER AND MAP MAKER. HIS LONG-LASTING COMPANY STARTED IN 1707 AND TERMINATED IN THE 1820'S. MATTHIAS SEUTTER AND CONRAD LOTTER APPRENTICED UNDER J.B. HOMANN. THESE THREE PUBLISHERS AND MAP MAKERS RE-ESTABLISHED MAP MAKING IN GERMANY AT THIS TIME.
Date:
1710-1730
Condition:
PAPER IS EXCELLENT. GOOD CRISP IMPRESSION. OVERALL FINE.
An 18thc. copperplate-engraved map by
Matth. SEUTTER, engraved by T.C. Lotter; published in Augsburg.
Stunning map centered on Naumberg, Zeitz, Weissenfels & Teichern.
Elaborate title cartouche with putti. Panoramic view of Naumburg with
numbered index of Place Names. Compass rose. Original wash and outline color.
SAXONY AND MEKLENBURG. COPPERPLATE ENGRAVED WORK ON LAID PAPER PUBLISHED BY JOHANNE JANSSON OF AMSTERDAM. UNCOLORED; LATIN TEXT ON VERSO. EARLY PUBLICATION FOR JANSSON, IT STILL HAS GERARD MERCATOR'S NAME ON THE PUBLICATION. JANSSON HAD MARRIED INTO THE HONDIUS FAMILY, ANOTHER CARTOGRAPHIC PUBLISHER; AND HONDIUS HAD MARRIED INTO MERCATOR'S FAMILY; THUS THIS PUBLICATION WAS A THREE PARTNERSHIP FIRM AT ONE TIME.
Date:
1612-1629
Condition:
VERY CRISP REPRESENTATION OF JANSSON'S EARLY WORKS. VG+
COPPERPLATE ENGRAVING ON LAID PAPER. UNCOLORED; PUBLISHED BY JOHANNE BLAEU C1650-1670. LATIN TEXT ON VERSO.
THIS MAP IS MOST LIKELY FROM ATLAS MAIOR, EDITION UNKNOWN.
Date:
1650-1670
Condition:
FINE IMPRESSION. SOME TONING ON THE CENTERFOLD FROM ORIGINAL GLUE, WHICH IS A COMMON TINT FROM GLUE AND MOISTURE OVER AN EXTENSIVE TIME. OTHERWISE VG.
MONGUNTIA RHINELAND-PFALTZ REGION; GERMAN MAP MAKER TOB. CONRAD LOTTER OF AUGSBURG, STUDIED UNDER J.B. HOMANN. COPPERPLATE ENGRAVED WORK ON LAID PAPER, WASH COLORING, ELABORATE TITLE CARTOUCHE AND MILEOMETER.
NORTHERN GERMANY, SHOWS PART OF POMERANIA. PUBLISHED BY JANSSON IN AMSTERDAM. THIS IS A COPPERPLATE ENGRAVED WORK ON RAG PAPER, GOOD COLORING AND LATIN TEXT ON VERSO.
Date:
1640-1650
Condition:
VG. SMALL CENTERFOLD REPAIR AT BOTTOM. EXCELLENT COLOR AND GOOD PAPER INTEGRITY.
EARLY COPPERPLATE ENGRAVING FROM GUILJEMUS BLAEUW. BLAEU SIGNED HIS NAME DIFFERENTLY, WITH A "W" AT THE END, IN THE EARLIER PART OF HIS CAREER. GERMAN TEXT ON THE VERSO. FINE COLORING AND FINE QUALITY PAPER.
NORTHERN GERMANY INCLUDING BRANDENBURG AND POMERANIA. COPPERPLATE ENGRAVED WORK ON LAID PAPER. WASH COLORING; EXCEPTIONALLY ORNATE CARTOUCHE; VERY STRONG PAPER.
Date:
1710-1720
Condition:
OVERALL GOOD. SMALL CENTERFOLD REPAIR AT BOTTOM AND A BIT OF TONING ON LEFT SIDE.
A PART OF GERMANY SHOWING FRANKFURT IN LOWER LEFT. COPPERPLATE ENGRAVED WORK ON LAID PAPER, PUBLISHED IN AMSTERDAM. ORIGINAL COLORING. NO TEXT ON VERSO.
Date:
1650-1660
Condition:
SOME BROWNING ON THE LEFT SIDE. THIS MAP HAS BEEN LINEN BACKED. OVERALL GOOD.
COPPERPLATE ENGRAVED MAP ON LAID PAPER. WASH COLOR ON MAP AND CONTEMPORARY COLOR OF CARTOUCHE. HOMANN PUBLISHING HOUSE IN NUREMBERG, GERMANY WAS EXTREMELY PROLIFIC... ONE OF THE LONGEST RUNNING FIRMS IN EUROPE TO PRODUCE MAPS.
Showing the areas of Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. Unusual map in that it focuses on the river systems... the Elbe, Danube, Oder, Rhine, Weser, Maase, Moselle, Meuse and more. Decorative title cartouche around the theme of WATER.
NINE VIGNETTES WITH WASH COLOR DENOTING DIFFERENCES IN VARIOUS AREAS. PUBLISHED BY IN NUREMBURG. COPPERPLATE ENGRAVED WORK ON LAID PAPER; GOOD DEEP IMPRESSION ON STRONG PAPER.
Date:
1710-1730
Condition:
OVERALL VG. TWO STAINS ON TOP CAN BE REMOVED WITH A PAPER CLEANER.
LARGE FOLIO COPPERPLATE ENGRAVED MAP PUBLISHED IN EDINBURGH. THE ENGRAVINGS DONE FOR THOMSON'S NEW GENERAL ATLAS WERE PRODUCED IN LONDON, DUBLIN AND EDINBURGH. NO TEXT ON VERSO.
ENGRAVED COPPERPLATE MAP PUBLISHED BY GUILLEME DE L'ISLE. DE L'ISLE (1675-1726): PUPIL OF JEAN DOMONIQUE CASSINI, MEMBER OF THE FRENCH ACADEMIE ROYALE OF SCIENCES 1702 AND PREMIER GEOGRAPHER TO THE KING 1718. SOME WASH COLOR; NO TEXT ON VERSO. THESE ARE TWO MAPS, EACH THE SAME DIMENSION, WHICH JOIN TOGETHER TOP TO BOTTOM.
PALATINE AREA. INSET MAP, LOWER LEFT, SHOWS THE COURSE OF THE RHINE RIVER. COPPERPLATE ENGRAVED WORK ON LAID PAPER; PUBLISHED IN VENICE. ELABORATE TITLE CARTOUCHE AND EXCELLENT IMPRESSION.
An ORIGINAL 17thc. copperplate engraved map published in London.
Nicely detailed throughout... including the Boden See, Stuttgart,
Tubingen, Strasbourg, Augsburg, Freiburg, and part of the Rhine River.
Great title cartouche with allegorical figures.
No text on verso. Fine old paper.
Beautifully detailed map of the Westphalia area of Germany with much of Belgium and the Netherlands. With north oriented to the right... showing Hamburg, lower right; the Zuyder Zee at top center; Venlo and Maestricht, upper left; Waldeck and Cassel, lower left. EXCELLENT title cartouche and sailing vessels. Fine old paper. Latin text on verso.
Date:
c1620
Condition:
Clean, clear impression. Minor split lower centerfold. Overall very good.
