File:1761 Homann Heirs Map of Westphalia ( Bremen, Hamburg, Cologne, Bonn, etc. ) - Geographicus - Westphaliae-hmhr-1761.jpg

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Circuli Westphaliae Quoad partem septentrionalem in sous Status ecclesiasticos & seculares divisi Tabula Geographica edita sumtibus Homannianorum Heredum Norimbergae Ao. 1761.
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Circuli Westphaliae Quoad partem septentrionalem in sous Status ecclesiasticos & seculares divisi Tabula Geographica edita sumtibus Homannianorum Heredum Norimbergae Ao. 1761.
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English: A beautifully detailed c. 1761 Homann Heirs map of Westphalia. Covers from Bremen and Hamburg in the north to Cologne, Bonn, Dusseldorf, Aix, Wyck and Luttich in the south. Arnheim, Nimmegen, Wesel, Munster, Minden, Cassel, Hannover, and Meppen also shown. The map details fortified cities, villages, roads, bridges, forests, castles and topography. The title cartouche in the upper left quadrant features a cherubic child frolicking. This map was drawn in Nuremberg and included in the c. 1760 edition of Homann Heirs Maior Atlas Scholasticus ex Triginta Sex Generalibus et Specialibus…. .
Date 1761 (dated)
Dimensions height: 22.5 in (57.1 cm); width: 19.2 in (48.8 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,22.5U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,19.25U218593
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Major Atlas Scholasticus Ex Triginta sex Generalibus et Specialibus Mappis Homannianis..., c. 1760.

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