ATLAS - SEUTTER, GEORG MATTHÄUS. - [BEAUTIFUL 18TH CENTURY ATLAS]
Atlas Novus indicibus instructus. Oder Neuer mit Wort=registern versehener Atlas. Bestehend in 50 Seutterisch=geographischen Haupt= und Special-Tabellen, als vorüber Erstlich ein sehr nutzlich=compendioser General-nachgehends aber über eine jede insonderheit ein solch=bequemer Special-Index gedrucktet worden...in offenen Druk heraus gegeb von Matthäo Roth.
Wien, Johann Peter v. Ghelen, 1730. Large folio. (56,5x34,5 cm.). Cont. full calf. Back with blindtooled title, compartments with blindtooled rosettes. Covers with a gilt border, but the gilding faint. A few small insignificant nicks to hinges and small scratches to covers, but a weel-preserved binding in its original state. Printed title in red a. black. Fine engraved handcolured allegorical frontispiece showing Europe seated above a globe, engraved double-page handcoloured dedication to the emperor. (10) pp. (incl. list of maps). Double-page handcoloured map with Globus Coelestis & Globus terrestris & Armillar-sphere, double-page handcoloured Planisphaerum Coeleste with world-systems, double-page handcoloured hemispherical world map, double-page handcoloured Compass of winds (all 6 engravings in original handcolouring). Further 51 double-page engraved maps all in original handcolouring (Index 1-50 and Russia having 2 maps). All maps with 2 leaves of printed place-names interleaved. A few small marginal tears, one map with a bit of soiling in lower right corner and one center-fold with a small repair. Otherwise in very fine and clean condition.
¶ Scarce and fine complete Seutter-Atlas issued by the engraver Matthaeus Roth in Wien. Matthäus Seutter the Elder first published his "Atlas Geographicus" in 1720 and added to the contents in subsequent editions under the title "Atlas Novus". All the maps have his signature or that of his sons Georg Matthäus. Later versions of the atlas may include maps signed by J.B. Homann or his heirs.
Seutter was born in 1685, son of a goldsmith in Augsburg. In 1697, Seutter began his studies at Nüremberg and subsequently worked in the printing house of Jeremias Wolff in Augsburg. In 1710 he established his own publishing house and printshop. The Seutter publishing house produced a great number of maps, atlases and globes. However very few original maps were printed there, as Augsburg at that time had no university and no connection to the fields of mathematics or the natural sciences. Seutter therfore copied the work of other carthographers, making his own engravings based on their models. Over 500 maps were produced in his studio. He died 1757 and his son Albrecht Karl, his son-in-law Conrad Tobias Lotter, and his businesspartner Johann Michael Probst ran the printing business for five more years.
Shirley: T.SEU-1a (but our copy having 4 more plates (3 maps)). - Not in Phillips.
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