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Decorative map of Portugal with a large inset of Brazil, showing its 12 captaincies. The map is elaborately colored, with several naval battles, a highly ornate cartouche and other details. Based on an earlier map by Homann. Fold split at the lower margin entering about 2.5 inches in the map and a secon minor tear at the bottom just left of the centerfold, entering about 1 inch into the image. Gorgeous full color example.
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
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