Live auction - Lot 1141
[Switzerland]
Atlas novus rei publicae Helvetiae XX mappis compositus sumtibus [sic] Homannianis Heredibus Norimbergae.
Nuremberg, Homann Heirs, 1769
€ 800 / 1.000
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Lot description
Folio: engr. index-20 double-paged engr. maps, hand-coloured (toned, rather strong waterstains and other traces of use).
Limp leather binding with blind-stamped title and rectangular grid (sl. used).
Rare atlas with an index and 20 large maps of Switzerland: a general map dated 1751 and a map of Schafhausen (1753) by Tobias Mayer, a map with the religions dated 1732 by Johann Hübner, 12 cantonal maps of Zürich (1765), Bern (1765), Lucerne (1763), Uri (1768), Schwitzerland (1767), Unterwalden (1767), Zug (1768), Glarus (1768), Basel (1767), Freiburg (1767), Solothurn (1766), Appenzell (1765) by Gabriel Walser; 3 maps of St. Gallen, Bündnerland, Wallis (1768); 2 maps of Lake Geneva (Lac Leman, 1766) and Lake Constance (Bodensee, 1766) by G.-A. Rizzi Zannoni.