Principaute De Transilvanie et Pays Circonvoisins. Dressé sur le meilloures Cartes.

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Copper engraving, hand colored in outline. This antique map depicts the principality of Transylvania around 1784. The cartographic source is based on Francois Santini and was published here by M. Remondini in Venice. A highly detailed map of Transylvania (Siebenbürgen) with the regions of Clausenburg and Hermanstadt in the centre of the old map. Engraved are place names, villages, mountains, rivers, monasteries, castles, etc. Further there are trails or routes from larger towns and political borders engraved. The political borders of the individual regions of the principality of Transilvania are hand colored in outline. In the upper left corner with a ornated title cartouche, below with a mileage scale.