Antique map titled 'Synopsis Circuli Rhenani Inferioris sive Electorum Rheni (..)'. This map shows the course of the Rhine from Philippsburg to Duisburg, as well as the course of the Moselle and Maas on the left bank of the Rhine and of the Neckar, Main, Lahn and Ruhr on the right bank of the Rhine. With large cartouche lower left. Published by M. Seutter, circa 1730.
George Matthaus Seutter, a German publisher, cartographer and engraver from Augsburg, was born 1678 as the son of a goldsmith. After an apprenticeship at J. B. Homann in Nuremberg, he returned to his native city of Augsburg and worked in the publishing firm of Jeremiah Wolf. In 1707 he founded his own successful publishing company and produced maps, atlases and globes. Seutter died in 1757. The company went over to his son Albrecht Carl and his stepsons G. B. Probst and T. C. Lotter in after his death in 1757.
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