COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Sotzmann, Daniel Friedrich
Date:
1796
Short Title:
Connecticut.
Publisher:
Carl Ernst Bohn
Publisher Location:
Hamburg
Type:
Atlas Map
Obj Height cm:
36
Obj Width cm:
44
Scale 1:
380,160
Note:
In outline color by county.
Reference:
Phillips Maps p247; Ristow 169-177.
State/Province:
Connecticut
Full Title:
Connecticut entworfen von D.F. Sotzmann. No. VI. Hamburg bey Carl Ernst Bohn 1796 ... P. Schmidt Sculp. zu Ebelings Erdbeschreibung von Amerika.
List No:
2746.001
Series No:
1
Engraver or Printer:
Schmidt, P.
Publication Author:
Sotzmann, Daniel Friedrich
Pub Date:
1796
Pub Title:
Atlas Von Nordamerika.
Pub Reference:
Phillips Maps p247; Ristow 169-177.
Pub Note:
From the Ebeling-Sotzmann Atlas Von Nordamerika. The Atlas was to accompany Ebeling's seven volume Erdbeschreibung und Geschichte von Amerika, die vereinten Staaten Von Amerika. Sotzmann completed only 10 maps of an intended 18 - Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Massachusetts in 1796; Rhode Island, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland & Delaware (1 sheet) in 1797; Maine in 1798; and New York in 1799. Sotzmann made use of the American maps of the period by Carey, Blodget, Belknap, Howell, Carleton, De Witt, Griffith, and others. Sotzmann's maps are highly detailed with symbols for churches, roads, court houses, distilleries, iron works, mills, academies, county lines, town lines, and more. They are also very rare - only a few institutions have all ten maps that were published. Sotzmann used Blodget and Carey (and two other maps published in Holland - Ristow) as sources for the Connecticut map.
Pub List No:
2746.000
Pub Type:
National Atlas
Pub Maps:
5
Pub Height cm:
76
Pub Width cm:
54
Image No:
2746001
Authors:
Sotzmann, Daniel Friedrich
Collection:
Rumsey Collection
