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Description

Fine example of Seutter's map of America, with two spectacular cartouches.

A highly detailed and richly engraved map. Seutter's maps are among the most vivid. The map is packed with geographic detail, real and apocryphal. The Great Lakes are very unusually shaped. A number of mythical western places are shown. South America is much too wide. The Mississippi is considerably west of its proper course. Many other interesting features.

The present example is McLaughlin's state 3, with text above the equator at the left and the privilege above the neatline at the bottom right (Cum Gratia...).

Reference
McLaughlin 211.
Matthaus Seutter Biography

Matthäus Seutter (1678-1757) was a prominent German mapmaker in the mid-eighteenth century. Initially apprenticed 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 work 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. 

Alternative spellings: Matthias Seutter, Mathaus Seutter, Matthaeus Seutter, Mattheus Seutter