SEUTTER

MAGNI TURCARUM DOMINATORIS IMPERIUM PER EUROPAM, ASIAM ET AFRICAM…

SEUTTER, Matthaeus

Augsburg, 1727

50.8 x 58.4 cm.

Striking hand-colored engraved regional map, centered on Turkey and Asia Minor, and showing the Eastern Mediterranean, Balkans, Greece, Persia, Saudi Arabia, the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea, published by Seutter.
Includes decorative cartouche and extra text sheet, locating hundreds of places on the map.

Matthaus Seutter Biography
Matthäus Seutter (1678-1757) was a prominent German mapmaker in the mid-eighteenth century. Initially apprenticed to a brewer, he trained as an engraver under Johann Baptist Homann in Nuremburg before setting up shop in his native Augsburg. In 1727 he was granted the title Imperial Geographer. His most famous work is Atlas Novus Sive Tabulae Geographicae, published in two volumes ca. 1730, although the majority of his maps are based on earlier work by other cartographers like the Homanns, Delisles, and de Fer.