Whole of Scotland

49x57 cm

Nova et accurata totius Regni SCOTIÆ, SECUNDUM OMNES PROVINCIAS et adjacentes Insulas, exquisitostudio determinatæ, Delineatio, cura et sumptibus MATTH. SEUTTERI, S.CAES.ET REG.CÆS. MAJEST. GEOGR. AUGUSTÆ VINDEL.
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Matthäus Seutter (1678-1757) was a German engraver and map publisher based in Augsberg, Augusta Vindel, at the end of the title of this map, is the Latin name for the town. Originally apprenticed to a brewer, he left and took up a new apprenticeship in Nuremberg as an engraver under the leading German cartographer Joann Baptist Homann (1664-1724). Seutter established his own business in Augsberg publishing maps based upon earlier works by leading mapmakers, but his quality engraving and varied map production established his reputation and hin 1727 he was granted the title Imperial Geographer by Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI. Seutter died in 1724, his established business passing to his to his son Albrecht Carl who died just five years later in 1762. The busines was then divided between Augsberg publisher Johann Friedrich Probst (1721-1781) and Tobias Conrad Lotter (1717-1777), Matthäus Seutter's son-in-law who continued the production of Seutter's maps and atlases.

This map of Scotland, published in his Atlas Novus...Seutter, Augsberg n.d. [c.1735], is based on the map published by Nicolaes Visscher (1618-1679) c.1689. 
Old repair to short split at right centerfold and printers crease at bottom right border, neither affecting the map. A very good example from the first issue in fine original hand colour to map and cartouches. Acid burns from one of the green pigments used in the colouring are evident verso but the paper remains strong.

D.G. Moir, Early Maps of Scotland vol.1. p.184.