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A good dark impression and detailed engraving of China with an opulent cartouche. This map of China first appeared in Seutter's, Atlas Novus of 1728. It Pre-dates the Jesuit projection of China as published by Jean- Baptiste du Halde in Paris in 1735. Formosa appears as a large island off the east coast of China.
After serving an apprenticeship to J.B. Homann, the Nuremberg map publisher, the German mapmaker Matteus Seutter set up his own very successful business in Augsburg and was appointed Geographer to the Imperial Court. With his son, Albrecht, and son-in-law, Conrad Lotter, he issued a number of atlases. For much of his life he worked in competition with his old employer and, not surprisingly, his maps are often very similar to those of Homann.
Framed MA8190 HK$ 20,500
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