Covens & Mortier after Scheuchzer
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LB 4493
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Switzerland > Lake Geneva - Lake Thun - Valais
"Carte d'une partie des Cantons de Berne de
Fribourg du pais de Veau et du Valais ..."
Copper engraving by Covens & Mortier after Scheuchzer, Amsterdam ca. 1720,
52,5 x 60 cm.
Very good condition and strong impression.
sold
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Map
of the area Lake Geneva - Lake Thun - Valais. After
the southwestern part of the large map
of Switzerland (in four parts) made by the Swiss
doctor and natural scientist Johann Jakob Scheuchzer
(1672-1733). 1713 he donated the map
to the city of Zurich. In the lower part of
the map there are a view of the Bernese Alps,
next to the right the Rhone glacier, in front
the production of crockery made of soapstone
and at the lower right the so called 'Luzerner
Drachenstein', well known at that time for his
healing power (today in the museum of natural
history in
Luzern).
Literature:
Lothar Zögner: Kartenschätze. Aus
den Sammlungen der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin.
Westermann, Braunschweig 2000.
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