Lower Rhine Circle

Containers:
Oversize_Folder 10
Scope and content:

(Wright Germany Map No. 28 1/2)

Rhenanus Inferior sive Electorum Rheni Complectens tres Archiepiscopatus, Moguntinum Coloniensem et Trevirensem Palatinatum Rheni, Comit Beilstein Newenaer, Inf[erior]. Isenburg et Reiserschett

[Map of the Lower Rhine Circle Including three Archbishoprics Mosel, Rhine and Mosel Cologne, Treves, Earl Beilstein Newenaer, Lower Isenburg and Reiserschett]

Shows towns, villages. Relief shown pictorially.

Johann Baptist Homann, Nuremberg - cartographer

Johann Baptist Homann, Nuremberg - publisher

copper engraving, hand colored, elaborate cartouche, linen backed folding map of 4 sheets

50 cm x 59 cm

1 : 634,000

Map appears in a " Composite Atlas of Maps" primarily by Homann, but also Seutter, Lotter, and others.

Places:
Germany--Maps

Access and use

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College of William and Mary
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