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In the 18th century, sentimental cartography was very much à la mode, with this map as one of the finer examples. ‘Das Reich der Liebe’ (‘the Empire of Love’) by Johann Gottlob Immanuel Breitkopf, was published in Leipzig in 1777. In a brief explanatory, it describes how pilgrims set out from the Land of Youth, where are located the sources of the rivers Joy and Wish and may end up in any of six other countries.
Below the map is a listing of the place-names in German and an attempt at English translation:
Das Reich der Liebe -The Empire of Love
Zweyter Landchartensatz-Versuch – Second Attempt at Map-making
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