A New & Exact Map of the Electonate of Brunswick-Lunenburg and ye rest of ye Kings Dominion in Germany

by Herman Moll

$850 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

A magnificent map celebrating the ascension of the House of Hanover to the British throne, depicting the new King's German possessions. Herman Moll first printed this map immediately after George I came to the throne of Great Britain. Queen Anne Stuart died without heir, and after the legislated exclusion of her close, but Catholic, relatives, her distant Protestant cousin, the Elector of Hanover, was deemed to be her legitimate heir. It is amusing to note that even though

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