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Circuli Supe. Saxoniae Pars Meridionalis sive Ducatus Electoratus et Principatus Ducum Saxoniae…
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Circuli Supe. Saxoniae Pars Meridionalis sive Ducatus Electoratus et Principatus Ducum Saxoniae…
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English: A fine example of the Homann Heirs map of Saxony, Germany. Covers from Berlin in the north, to Prague in the southeast and Efurt in the west. The map is filled with information including fortified cities, villages, roads, bridges, forests, battlefields, castles and topography. Title cartouche in the upper left quadrant features a wonderful mining vignette, the Greek god Hermes, and a warrior figure with a shield featuring the head of Medusa. Prepared in Nuremberg by the engravers Adam Friedrich Zürner and Zolman for issue in Homann Heirs’ Maior Atlas Scholasticus .
Date 1757 (undated)
Dimensions height: 19 in (48.2 cm); width: 22 in (55.8 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,19U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,22U218593
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Geographicus link: Saxoniae-hmhr-1757
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Major Atlas Scholasticus Ex Triginta sex Generalibus et Specialibus Mappis Homannianis..., c. 1760.

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