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Description

Scarce map of the Holy Land, with a large elaborate allegorical cartouche, including Jonah and whale.

The Holy Land is divided into the regions of the 12 Tribes and notes towns, roads, mountains, rivers, etc, based upon Biblical teachings. The first time we have ever seen this map. No auction records or dealer catalogue records could be located.

Condition Description
Narrow margins, with some loss. Some discoloration and soiling at centerfold and repaired fold split.
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