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Deutsch: Karte von der Deutschland (Reilly, 1796).

Note: Double page engraved hand color map of Germany. Shows administrative divisions, cities and towns, roads, rivers and canals, etc. Relief shown pictorially. Includes title cartouche, abbreviation, and legend.
Full Title: Karte von der Deutschland. Nach Sotzmann. Neu verzeichnet herausgegeben von Franz Joh. Jos. Von Reilly. Zu finden im von Reilly'schen Landkarten und Kunstwerke Verschleiss Komptoir. Wien, 1796. Gestochen von Hieronymus Benedicti. (to accompany) Grosser Deutscher Atlas.
Pub Title: Grosser Deutscher Atlas. Erfunden von Franz Joh. Jos. von Reilly. Gezeichnet von Vinzenz Georg Kininger. Gestochen von Karl Schutz.
Pub Note: First Austrian-made complete world atlas. Double-page copper engraving. with allegorical title page by Karl Schutz after Vinzenz Georg Kininger, double-page index and explanation, table, 27 double-page engraved maps dated 1795-1796, outline hand-colored with title cartouche. showing administrative divisions, cities and towns, mountains, rivers, canals, ports, forts, etc. Engraved title page shows Measuring instruments, mythological, astronomical, religious, scientific, allegorical hints and facts were united in a composition which depicted the pride of progress in knowledge. Bound in half morocco and marbled board. Includes a separate map of the Americas after d'Anville and Pownall with inset maps of the United States, of Hudson's Bay area, and of Alaska. Also a separate map of Polynesia, showing Ulimaroa (Australia), New Guinea, New Zealand, Van Diemen's land (shown as a peninsula), explorers' routes are delineated and hand-colored, including the most recent ones of Cook's three voyages

Scale 1:1,900,000
Date 1796
Source David Rumsey Map Collection.
Author Reilly, Franz Johann Joseph von (1766-1820)
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