COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Gorog, Demeter, 1760-1833
Date:
1799
Short Title:
Torontal Varmegye = Comitatus Torontaliensis
Type:
Atlas Map
Obj Height cm:
29
Obj Width cm:
22
Scale 1:
380,000
Note:
Engraved hand colored in outline map of Torontal county of the Kingdom of Hungary. Showing administrative boundaries, cities, towns, rivers, forests and mountains. Includes legend and coat of arms. Relief shown by hachures.
Country:
Hungary
County:
Torontal (Hungary, County)
Full Title:
Torontal Varmegye = (Comitatus Torontaliensis). Concinn. a Mich. Votesky. Incidit Berken Vienna 1799. (to accompany) Magyar atlas ... kozre botsatotta Gorog = Atlas Hungaricus ... Viennae, 1802.
List No:
13049.048
Page No:
44
Series No:
48
Engraver or Printer:
Votesky, Michael
Engraver or Printer:
Berken, Johann
Publication Author:
Gorog, Demeter, 1760-1833
Pub Date:
1802
Pub Title:
Magyar atlas, az az, Magyar, horvat es tot orszagok varmegyeji, s szabad keruletei es a hatar-orzo katonasag videkinek kozonseges és kulonos tabalji : kozre botsatotta Gorog = Atlas Hungaricus : seu regnorum Hungariae, Croatiae et Slavoniae comitatuum, privilegiatorum districtuum, et confiniorum generales & practiculares mappae geographicae. Viennae, 1802.
Pub Note:
The first modern atlas of Hungary, prepared using modern surveys and methods. It was first issued incomplete with a title page in 1802, with the remaining sheets being issued over the course of the next 9 years between 1796-1811. Including plates of the Hungarian, Croatian and Slovenian Countries’ Castle Districts, Free Regions, and the Military Border Districts. With engraved title-page in Hungarian and Latin, legend, key map and 59 hand colored in outline copperplate engraved loose map sheets in morocco backed silk portfolio, with title "Atlas Hungaricus" in gilt on the cover.
Pub List No:
13049.000
Pub Type:
National Atlas
Pub Maps:
60
Pub Height cm:
46
Pub Width cm:
37
Image No:
13049048.jp2
Authors:
Gorog, Demeter, 1760-1833
