Striking double hemisphere map of the World, with twin celestial hemispheres and four models of the solar system. Shows California as an Island, partial New Zealand, partial Australia and a host of other cartographic anomalies, along with rich scientific detail. Trimmed to the plateline and mounted on old paper, as is often the case with maps from Seutter and Lotter's Atlas Minor.
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