Ichnographia munitissimae Arcis Otzakoff, quae Ao. 1737, die 3. Iulij auspicijs Supremi...

Rare antique map of the fortress Ochakiv (Otschakow, Otschakiw) in the south of Ukraine at the Black Sea northeast of Odessa by M. Seutter. The Baron Münchhausen, known as the Liar Baron, is said to have performed his famous ride on the cannonball at this place during the depicted siege of this fortress in 1737 in the Russo-Austrian Turkish War.

Bottom right with a very decorative cartouche. Top right a description of the fortress.

George Matthaus Seutter, a German publisher, cartographer and engraver from Augsburg, was born 1678 as the son of a goldsmith. After an apprenticeship at J. B. Homann in Nuremberg, he returned to his native city of Augsburg and worked in the publishing firm of Jeremiah Wolf. In 1707 he founded his own successful publishing company and produced maps, atlases and globes. Seutter died in 1757. The company went over to his son Albrecht Carl and his stepsons G. B. Probst and T. C. Lotter in after his death in 1757. The latter being regarded as his true successor. According to C. Sandler, following atlases have been published by Seutter:

- Atlas Geographicus oder Accurate Vorstellung der Ganzen Welt, 1725
- Atlas Compendiosus oder die ganze Welt in den nothwendigsten Geographischen Charten
- Atlas Compendiosus Scholasticus
- Atlas Novus Indicubus Instructus, 1728
- Grosser Atlas, 1734
- Atlas Minor, 1744

Beside the atlases, Seutter produced a pair of 20 cm table globes during his early days.

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