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Description

Fine example of Seutter's decorative map of the Island of Malta and environs, published in Augsburg.

Malta is oriented with south at the top.

The map is based upon an earlier map by De Fe and includes Plan of Valetta at lower left and a panel of 67 coats-of-arms at lower right.

Reference
Mason & Willis 76.
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