Name: Northern Ireland - von Reilly
SKU: 3964
Availability: InStock

Description

Reilly, Franz Johann Joseph von (1760 – 1820): Das Königreichs Ireland Provinz Ulster…Nro. 91

Vienna c1790

orig. col. copper engr map; overall 30 x 43 cm; plate 22,5 x 28,5 cm. some foxing; o/w vg. cond.

A very detailed map of the Northern part of Ireland with Belfast by von Reilly from his ‘Schauplatz der Fünf Theile der Welt nach und zu Anton Friedrich Büschings großer Erdbeschreibung’

Von Reilly was a Viennese art dealer, mapmaker and publishers. From 1789 onwards until 1806, he worked on a very ambitious project to publish an atlas, ‘Schauplatz der fuenf Theile der Welt…’, which contained 830 maps by the time of publishing.

[ref: 3964] £100