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Helvetia Tredecim Statibus Liberis quos Cantones vocant, composita. Unacum feoderatis & subjectis Provinciis, ex porbatissimis Subsidiis geographice delineata per Dm. Tobiam Mayerum, Professorem Matth. Goettingensem.
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Helvetia Tredecim Statibus Liberis quos Cantones vocant, composita. Unacum feoderatis & subjectis Provinciis, ex porbatissimis Subsidiis geographice delineata per Dm. Tobiam Mayerum, Professorem Matth. Goettingensem.
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English: A beautifully detailed 1751 Homann Heirs map of Switzerland. Depicts Switzerland along with parts of Italy, France, Germany and Austria. The map notes fortified cities, villages, roads, bridges, forests, castles and topography. Title cartouche in the upper right quadrant features the thirteen armorial crests of Switzerland’s noble families. Map scales in the lower left quadrant. Alternative title in French in top margin, above scales La Suisse, divisee en ses treze Cantons, ses Alliez et ses Sujets This map was drawn in Nuremberg by Tobius Mayer and included in the Homann Heirs Maior Atlas Scholasticus ex Triginta Sex Generalibus et Specialibus…. .
Date 1752 (dated)
Dimensions height: 17.2 in (43.8 cm); width: 22 in (55.8 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,17.25U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,22U218593
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Major Atlas Scholasticus Ex Triginta sex Generalibus et Specialibus Mappis Homannianis..., c. 1752.

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