Bound in brown leather covers with "Atlas geographicus Berolinensis" in gilt on the spine.
Item number: 28200 900 (900 / 765) Palatinatus Rheni Nova et Accurata Descriptio. Totius Circuli Westphalici accurata descriptio : cum Privilegio Ordin.
Each map is outline hand colored and has a stamp of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences, most maps include decorative title cartouche, showing political and administrative divisions, cities, villages, place names, rivers, canals and mountains. Rheinland-Pfalz (Lorraine on verso) by Lorenz Fries. Highlights are 4 maps of the world (one in two sheets) and the 4-sheet map of America. This edition includes a title page, a 10-page preface by Leonhard Euler in Latin and French, 41 double-page engraved maps, plus 4 additional maps. The maps were largely based on works of Johann Christoph Rhode and were mostly engraved by Nicolaus Friedrich Sauerbrey. The Atlas was published on behalf of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin by Leonhard Euler, designed specifically for the use in schools. Holland, Niederlandwe, Westphalen, Hessen.įirst edition of the Atlas by the famous mathematician Leonhard Euler. Showing administrative boundaries, mountains, rivers, lakes, geographical and coastal features, cities, and principal towns. Hand colored copperplate engraving map on 2 sheets. Magna cura in lucem editum per Nicolaum Joannis Piscatore. Item type: 1 map Medium: copperplate engraving Dimensions: 39 x 53 cm Former owner: George III, King of Great Britain. Place of publication: Amsterdam Publisher: AMSTELODAMI Sumptibus Henrici Hondy, Date of publication: between 16. Title: Palatinatus Rheni Nova et Accurata Descriptio. Map information: Title: 'TOTIUS CIRCULI WESTPHALICI accurata descriptio ' Author(s): Hondius, Hendrik British Library shelfmark: Maps K.Top.91.5. Zoomable full resolution image available at . Old, antique map of Rheinland-Pfalz, by Nicolaes Visscher I.
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