Cyprus & the Deserts of Egypt and Arabia.

Seutter, Matthäus The Deserts of Egypt , Arabia & Syria with Cyprus. Augsburg, Seutter, Matthäus c 1728-42
Copper engraved map of Cyprus, Egypt and Syria from Seutter's "Atlas Novus". Original old colour; verso blank
The map shows the the Eastern Mediterranean, Cyprus as it lies off the coasts of Egypt, Arabia & Syria. The map is oriented North east with Cyprus at the top centre and the Red Sea also in the centre of the map.
The map is obviously a copy of the map by Sanson/Jaillot , re engraved but with most elements included, even to the pirate ships that appear in the sea off Palestine; the shape of Cyprus is slightly different from the earlier map.
The decorative title cartouche, scale and the compass rose are re engraved. Good dark impression; slight dampstain to lower margin just entering the image at centrefold; lower centrefold split with repair.

Seutter, Matthäus (The Elder): 1678–1757,

Seutter was an engraver, globe-maker and publisher.
Born in Augsburg in 1685, the son of a goldsmith. Seutter began his studies in Nuremberg in 1697, apprenticed as an engraver to Johann Baptist Homann. in 1707 later he returned to Augsburg subsequently working in the publishing house of Jeremias Wolff in the city. He founded the Seutter publishing house and print shop in 1710, producing maps, atlases, and globes., which became a primary competitor to Homann.
Very few original maps were printed there, as Augsburg at that time had no university and none of the necessary connections to the fields of mathematics or the natural sciences. Therefore Seutter copied the work of other cartographers, making his own engravings based on their models (approximately 500 pieces).
His "Atlas Geographicus oder Accurate Vorstellung der ganzen Welt' appeared in 1725 with 46 maps: the "Atlas Novus" various editions in 1728, 1730, 1736, 1742; the "Grosser Atlas"in 1734 with 131 maps, and the pocket atlas "Atlas minor in 1744 with 64 maps.
After Matthäus Seutter died in 1757, his son, Albrecht Karl, his son-in-law Conrad Tobias Lotter, and his business partner Johann Michael Probst ran the business for five more years.
Zacherakis 3355 500 by 590mm (19¾ by 23¼ inches).   ref: 1866  €750