Gorgeous full color example of Seutter's map of the British Isles, with 5 large coats of arms, portrait and two large decorative allegorical cartouches. One of the most decorative maps of the British Isles to appear in an 18th Century Atlas. Highly detailed throughout. Shirley: Seutter 1. A bit of soiling and pencil marks in the margins, else a near fine example in remarkable color.
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