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GERMANY, MECKLENBERG -- SCHMETTAU, FRIEDRICH WILHELM, KARL, GRAF VON. Topographisch Oeconomisch und militarische Charte des Herzogthums Mecklenberg Schwerin und des Furstenthumus Ratzeburg. Berlin and Vienna, 1788. Engraved survey of Mecklenberg on 16 double-page sheets, each sheet 630 x 940mm. Title and index set at upper corner of sheet 1; together with an explanatory booklet on the map by Schmettau, Berlin: 1787. 8°, 3 folding engraved maps and plates. [Bound together with]; Schmettau, Graf von. Carte Chorographique et Militaire du Duche de Mecklenburg-Strehlitz. Berlin: 1780. Engraved survey on 8 double-page sheets, each 620 x 940mm. The two surveys bound together in a folio volume, contemporary half-calf, marbled boards. (Extremities lightly rubbed).
Two interesting surveys of Mecklenburg by the Prussian Colonel, Graf von Schmettau, based on work by Karl Friederich R.von Wiebelung (1782-1842). The copperplates for the 1788 work were carried off by the French to Paris and later purchased back by the Dukes of Mecklenburg. Today they are in the archives in Schwerin. (2)
Two interesting surveys of Mecklenburg by the Prussian Colonel, Graf von Schmettau, based on work by Karl Friederich R.von Wiebelung (1782-1842). The copperplates for the 1788 work were carried off by the French to Paris and later purchased back by the Dukes of Mecklenburg. Today they are in the archives in Schwerin. (2)
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