Name: Southern Scotland - von Reilly
SKU: 3974
Availability: InStock

Description

Reilly, Franz Johann Joseph von (1760 – 1820): Des Königreichs Scotland südlicher Theil . Nro. 87

Vienna 1789

orig. col. copper engr map; overall 26 x 31 cm, plate 23 x 29 cm. some foxing; cropped to right platemark; o/w vg. cond.

A very detailed map of the Southern part of Scotland by von Reilly from his ‘Schauplatz der Fünf Theile der Welt nach und zu Anton Friedrich Büschings großer Erdbeschreibung’. With a fully hand coloured cartouche.

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: 3974] £175