COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Mueller, Christoph
Date:
1726
Short Title:
Section 20. Mappa chorographica novissima et completissima Totius Regni Bohemiae.
Type:
Case Map
Obj Height cm:
31
Obj Width cm:
35
Scale 1:
135,000
Country:
Czech Republic
Region:
Bohemia (Czech Republic)
Full Title:
Section 20. Mappa chorographica novissima et completissima Totius Regni Bohemiae.
List No:
12124.021
Page No:
Section 20
Series No:
21
Engraver or Printer:
Wolfg. Wieland
Engraver or Printer:
Michael Kauffer
Publication Author:
Mueller, Christoph
Pub Date:
1726
Pub Title:
Mappa chorographica novissima et completissima Totius Regni Bohemiae in Duodecim Circulos Divisae cum Comitatu Glacensi et Districtu Erano Adjunctis Circumiacentium Regionum Partibus Conterminis ... Mandato Caesareo instituta in hanc formam redacta ...XXV Sectionibus exhibita a ... Christoph Mueller ... A:C:M.DCC.XX ... Wolfg. Wieland ... Michael Kauffer.
Pub Note:
Map cut into twenty-five sections of four panels each. Every section mounted on linen with spaces between panels for folding. Section order is left to right from top to bottom . Outline color. Lavish illustrations. A reduced version of Müller's magnificent 25 sheet map of Bohemia.. The Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI charged Müller to produce an "authentic and complete" map of the Czech Kingdom, which would contain all relevant military information. Müller mapped the 12 counties, the districts of Cheb and Glatz, the Czech-Saxon border (upon a scale of 1:40,000), and carried out several route surveys. The final map, upon a scale of 1: 132,000, was engraved on 25 sheets by Michael Kauffer and Jan Daniel Herz, with the fine bucolic and allegorical scenes being drawn by Vaclav Varinec Reiner. The map depicts roads, rivers, forests, cities, towns, villages, bishoprics, and raw materials such as gold, silver, copper, iron and lead. The map would not be superseded until the publication of the First Military Survey of Austria, over forty years later. Johann Christoph Müller (1673-1721) was an Austrian military engineer and a fine cartographer. He studied maths and engineering at Nuremberg, and later joined the army. He was charged by the Holy Roman Emperor Joseph I to construct a map of Hungary upon a scale of 1: 550,000, which was published in 1709. He later worked on maps of Moravia (1712) and the present map of Bohemia, which was published posthumously in 1723. He also drew up a map of Silesia which was fleshed out by Johann Wolfgang Wieland. (Crouch, 2020)
Pub List No:
12124.000
Pub Type:
Case Map
Pub Maps:
1
Pub Height cm:
19
Pub Width cm:
17
Image No:
12124021.jp2
Authors:
Mueller, Christoph
Link To Source
Section 20. Mappa chorographica novissima et completissima Totius Regni Bohemiae.
