Fine old color example of Mattheus Seutter’s important, decorative and highly detailed plan of Milan published in Augsburg in 1730. This is the rare version with the city surrounded by the lombard towns of Novara, Lodi, Tortona, Mortara, Mantua, Valenza and Pizzighettone. Below interesting description of Milano and plan of its walled Castle. On the left side a key listing 76 point of interest.
Georg Matthäus Seutter (1678-1757) was a prominent German mapmaker in the mid-eighteenth century. Initially appreciated to a brewer, he trained as an engraver under Johann Baptist Homann in Nuremburg before setting up shop in his native Augsburg. In 1727 he was granted the title Imperial Geographer. His most famous works is Atlas Novus Sive Tabulae Geographicae, published in two volumes ca. 1730, although the majority of his maps are based on earlier work by other cartographers like the Homanns, Delisles, and de Fer.
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Fine old color example of Mattheus Seutter’s important, decorative and highly detailed plan of Milan published in Augsburg in 1730. This is the rare version with the city surrounded by the lombard towns of Novara, Lodi, Tortona, Mortara, Mantua, Valenza and Pizzighettone. Below interesting description of Milano and plan of its walled Castle. On the left side a key listing 76 point of interest.
Georg Matthäus Seutter (1678-1757) was a prominent German mapmaker in the mid-eighteenth century. Initially appreciated to a brewer, he trained as an engraver under Johann Baptist Homann in Nuremburg before setting up shop in his native Augsburg. In 1727 he was granted the title Imperial Geographer. His most famous works is Atlas Novus Sive Tabulae Geographicae, published in two volumes ca. 1730, although the majority of his maps are based on earlier work by other cartographers like the Homanns, Delisles, and de Fer.
- Year: 1730
- Dimension: 495 x 575 mm
- Place of publication: Augsburg
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