Name: Northern Scotland - von Reilly
SKU: 3969
Availability: InStock

Description

Reilly, Franz Johann Joseph von (1760 – 1820): Des Königreichs Scotland nördlicher Theil oder Das Hochland. Nro. 88

Vienna 1789

orig. col. copper engr map; overall 26 x 31 cm, plate 23 x 29 cm. some printer’s creases; some foxing; small right margin; o/w vg. cond.

A very detailed map of the Northern part of Scotland 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: 3969] £150