Detailed regional map of Germany showing the region bounded by the Maas River in the west and to part of Westphalia in the East. The map is centered on the Rhine region from Cologne to Arnheim, and showing Cleef, Nidwesel, Rheinbergen, Duisberg, Dusseldorf, Munster, etc. Nice decorative cartouche. Several long repaired tears on the verso. Normally a $350.00 map.
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