HASE, J, M. - [ Four plans on one sheet] Han Tscheu, Sinngan Fou (Singapore??), Kan Tscheu and Su Tscheu.

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Published: Nuremberg, Homann, c. 1739

Size: 295 x 177mm.

Color: In original colours.

Condition: Wide left margin, right margin cut close. Dark impression. Fine.

Description

A rare composite sheet of engravings of town-plans of Han Tscheu, Sinngan Fou (Singapore??), Kan Tscheu and Su Tscheu.

From : "Regni Davidici et Salomon Descriptio Geographica et Historica, una cum delineatione Syriae e Aegypti - juncta est huic operi Consideratio Urbium Maximarum Veterum et Recentiorum" prepared by Johann Matthias Hase (1684-1742; also known as Haas. He was a professor of Mathematics at the University of Wittenberg from 1720, but his most enduring fame was as a cartographer.

350€