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    Default Merian The Great

    I want to present you Matthäus Merian senior , a old german cartographer and some of his great Work.

    The City of Frankfurt am Main my Hometown

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...8-Komplett.gif

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...Suedwesten.jpg

    Heidelberg

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...erian_1620.jpg

    Munich

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...hen_merian.jpg

    Hall in Schwaben

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...n_Schwaben.jpg


    You can look at his works at wikimedia commons
    Matthäus Merian ? Wikimedia Commons

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    Wow, those are some beautiful maps! Nice find!

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    Incredible work! Too bad he didn't use colors it would be even more fantastic

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    These are reprints from copperplates (Chalcography). Sorry, there is no colour version :/

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