Rhine Panoramas Or A Bridge Too Many My initial interest in maps of the Rhine was sparked by an IMCoS [1] member on an International Symposium. As we made our way down the Rhine on a beautiful sunny morning Kitty L was holding a long, folding map of the river in her hands. It transpired that she had one of the late nineteenth-century leporello [folding single sheet] maps of the Rhine from Mainz to Cologne, complete with views illustrating the course of the river. Today the concertina—style leporello is taken for granted but at the time that the Rhine was becoming popular as a tourist attraction it was still unknown. [2] Probably the first to write an illustrated work about the river Rhine in guide-book form was the Dutch engraver, publisher and printseller, Hendrik de Leth, whose Deeze Gezichten langs den Rhyn was published in Amsterdam in 1767 by F.W. Grebe. This work contained 14 views of the stretch between Arnhem and Andernach [3] . Another early work was Mah...