Copper engraving, 495x580 mm, original watercolour. There is a beautiful decorative cartouche with various allegorical depictions in the top right-hand corner and another at the bottom with coats of arms and the milestone scale. Seutter, after an apprenticeship with Homann in Nuremberg, moved to Augsburg around 1720 and opened his own business, surpassing his master in terms of beauty: his maps always have brilliant colours and elaborate cartouches. From Atlas Maior his most famous work 'Atlas Novus Sive Tabulae Geographicae', published in two volumes around 1730. In 1727, he was awarded the title of Imperial Geographer. His most famous work is the Atlas Novus Sive Tabulae Geographicae, published in two volumes around 1730, although most of his maps are based on earlier works by other cartographers such as Homanns, Delisles and de Fer. Good copy in beautiful period colouring, three speckles in the margins