Price: £90.00

• Date: c. 1704
• Condition: AAA
• Colour: Outline colour
• Size (cm): 16.3 x 31.4

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

A 300 year old tourist map and guide of the countryside approx. 30 km. around the town of Breisach, situated on the Rhine. An old town, it has long been coveted because of its strategic location. It was fortified by the Romans, who called it Mons Brisiacus. It became an imperial town in 1275. Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar took the town in 1638. Louis XIV secured it for France in the Peace of Westphalia (1648) and ceded it back to the emperor in the Treaty of Ryswick (1697), but built a new fort, Neuf-Brisach (Ger. Neu Breisach), on the opposite side of the Rhine. The French repeatedly captured Breisach during the 18th cent. but gave it to Baden in 1805. The map shows the the mountainous areas to both sides of the valley and the Rhine, with numerous chanels, meandering its way north. A hugh amount of detail has been crammed onto the map. The stunde is a unit of distance defined to be 4800 meters (2.983 miles), approximately the distance a person can walk in an hour. The definition is consistent with the custom everywhere of informally adopting time units as distance units, as when we say "I live 10 minutes from school." Scarce.
Fold(s) as given.