1789 – F. J. J. Reilly – Schauplatz Erster Theil Title

Title:                      “Schauplatz der fünf Theile der Welt… Erster Theil”
                                  (Theatre of the Five Parts of the World… Part One)
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Description:

This is the engraved title page to the first part of Franz Johann Joseph von Reilly’s Schauplatz der fünf Theile der Welt, published in Vienna in 1789. Reilly (1766–1820) was a Viennese publisher, writer and cartographer. His Schauplatz was the first Austrian world atlas, issued in parts from 1789 to 1806 with some 830 maps. The maps were compiled “by a society of geographers”, based on the best original works and designed to accompany Anton Friedrich Büsching’s great Erdbeschreibung.

The title is set within a large, finely engraved wreath of laurel and olive branches tied with ribbons. It lists the contents of the first part:

1. Hungary and the Ottoman Empire in Europe
2. Poland and Prussia
3. The Russian Empire in Europe
4. Sweden, Denmark and Norway, Iceland and Greenland
5. Great Britain and Ireland

This is the volume that contains Reilly’s well-known 1791 maps of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania, among the last maps made before the partitions. The plate is signed “Gestochen von Ignaz Albrecht” (Ignaz Albrecht, 1760–1794), one of Vienna’s leading engravers.

Cartographer/Artist:  Franz Johann Joseph von Reilly

Engraver:                        Ignaz Albrecht

Publisher:                     F. J. J. von Reilly, Vienna

Atlas:                             Schauplatz der fünf Theile der Welt, Erster Theil
Sheet size:                    51.3 x 33.4 cm
Year:                               1789
Technique:                  copper engraving

Reference:                 Dörflinger, Österreichische Karten des 18. Jahrhunderts (Reilly)

Condition:
A single sheet of watermarked paper with very wide margins and a clear platemark. The impression is strong and dark. The paper is lightly toned, with faint dust-soiling and a little marginal browning, mainly along the upper and right edges. There are a few small spots and minor wear at the sheet edges, and the engraved area is clean.
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This is an original antique map published in 1789 and NOT a modern copy or reprint

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