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• SOLD
• Date: c. 1704
• Condition: AAA
• Colour: Outline colour
• Size (cm): 16.7 x 28.9

Publication: Atlas Curieux oder neuer und compendieuser Atlas ..., Augsburg.

A detailed map of the area east of Hamburg and north of the river Elbe. The history of Hamburg starts in the year AD825 with the building of the "Hammaburg", a moated castle built between the Alster and Elbe rivers.The founding of Lübeck on the Baltic coast, allowed Hamburg to become its port on the North Sea. In 1188 a group of Hamburg merchants received a charter for the building of a new town, close to the old one, with a harbour on the Alster and Elbe. This was confirmed and enhanced the following year by the emperor Frederick I Barbarossa in a charter giving the budding port special trading rights, toll exemptions and navigational privileges. Over the next century, Hamburg's economic importance grew with the development of the Hanseatic League, founded in Lübeck. Hamburg provided port facilities for Lübeck that opened up the way to the rest of the world. Scarce.
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