AFRICA-CONTINENT ‘Africa iuxta navigationes et observationes …’ [Matthaeus SEUTTER after , c.1725]

Map of the African Continent.

Engraving with hand colouring on hand laid (verge) paper.
Sheet size: 62 x 47,5 cm. Image size: 28 x 49,5 cm.

From a Seutter Atlas to be determined,

Made by Matthaeus Seutter after an anonymous artist. Engraver / publisher: Matthaeus/Mattheus/Mattias Seutter (1678-1756) was an engraver, globe-maker and map publisher from Augsburg. He was a pupil of J.B. Homann in Nuremberg. Seutter was awarded the title of Imperial Geographer by Karl VI in 1731. He made several atlases as a folio-atlas in two versions in 1720. Seutter’s most well-known works are the 1725 “Atlas Geographicus oder Accurate Vorstellung der ganzen Welt” with 46 maps, the 1734 “Grosser Atlas” with 131 maps, and the 1744 pocket atlas “Atlas minor” with 64 maps. Matthäus Seutter died in 1757. Seutter’s son Albrecht Karl, his son-in-law Conrad Tobias Lotter, and his business partner Johann Michael Probst ran the printing business for five more years.

Condition: Good, given age. Nice well inked early ed. Original fold as issued. Paper separation at lower middle fold, backed. Light soiling. Some small tears in paper edges, backed. Rear paper edges with acid free tape from previous attachment. Contemporary colouring. General age-related toning and/or occasional minor defects from handling. Please study scan carefully.

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