Griechenland der Archipelagus Albanien, Macedonien, Romanien und ein Theil von Anadoli, nach der Karte des de la...

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Copper engraving, hand colored in outline when published. A large and detailled map of Greece published 1796 in Germany by Adam Gottlieb Schneider. The map is detailled on place names, rivers, mountains, as well showing many regions with their original place names. The title cartouche in the lower left corner and in the lower right corner a milage scale. Schneider, Adam Gottlieb (1745 - 1815), who was a German bookseller and map publisher, founded the publishing house "Schneider und Weigel" in 1780 through his marriage to Maria Johanna Stellwag (heiress to the Weigel art dealer), which continued to exist even after his death in 1815. Overall an excellent example of this large and interesting map, verso inscribed in ink,ARCHIPELAGUS'. Published in a German composit atlas.