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SEUTTER (MATTHAUS) and others
[Composite atlas], Augsburg, the Author, [c.1740]

15 June 2016, 14:00 BST
London, Knightsbridge

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SEUTTER (MATTHAUS) and others

[Composite atlas], comprising 2 hand-coloured engraved titles (first allegorical for Seutter's "Atlas novus" by Remshard after Rogg, with 5-inch tear at foot; second for his "Atlas geographicus" dated 1720), 2 leaves of letterpress, 18 hand-coloured double-page maps by Seutter including double-hemisphere world (trimmed to just inside neatline) and 4 continents, 13 double-page maps by Homann hand-coloured to varying degrees including double-hemisphere world, and approximately 32 further plates by various hands of allegorical, genealogical, topographical and historical subjects (a few with tipped-on flaps) including city plans of Rome and Paris by Seutter, mostly hand-coloured, plus contemporary double-page manuscript map of German states in ink and watercolour, nineteenth century calf-backed boards, remains of ties, heavily rubbed, upper joint cracked, folio (530 x 305mm.), Augsburg, the Author, [c.1740]

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HANDSOME COMPOSITE ATLAS, based around Seutter's c.1740 Atlas novus but with additions by J.B. Homann to whom he had been apprenticed in 1687.

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