An interesting map of Northern Italy by Franz Wagner from the Einleitung in die alte und neuere Geographia, published by Leopold Hodl and printed by Gregory Kurtzbock in Vienna, 1737. The book was published in a single edition and is quite rare.
Franz Wagner was a Jesuit priest and director of the Jesuit seminary in Vienna. He was a prolific writer, producing works of a universal nature, dictionaries, histories and in particular works on chronology. This is the first small world atlas to have appeared in Austria. The 37 folding maps refer to ancient and modern world geography.
