Mannheim Germany city plan 1800 Stockdale detailed attractive scarce map
Brian DiMambro- Antiquarian Books, Maps & PrintsA Plan of the City of Manheim.
(Europe, Holy Roman Empire, Germany, Palatinate, Mannheim, City Plan, Fortifications, Neckar River, Rhine River).
Issued London, 1800 by J. Stockdale, Piccadilly.
Excellent antique turn of the 18th/19th century engraved city plan. Title within a strapwork cartouche top right, distance scale below at 1600 feet. Key locates opera house, horse stables, cannon foundry, convents, Jesuits, market, barracks for military, hospital, and Jewish areas.
Detailed map showing terrain, garden plans, buildings and a long key running down left side which identifies 44 specific important sites of interest.
In VG or better condition, minor light surface age wear and toning as typical, some faint minor foxing in the blank margins, overall the image is clean, well preserved and very attractive.
Sheet measures c. 9" x 11"
Engraved area measures c. 9 1/2" x 7"
[R21053]
Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers, v. 4, p. 219.