HOMANN Johann Baptist

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    Fine Homann’s map of the Po River

    • Author: HOMANN Johann Baptist
    • Dimension: 119 x 52 cm
    • Place of publication: Nuremberg
    • Year: 1735
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    A beautifully engraved map covering northeastern Italy and Istria on the northern shore of the Adriatic. The map is focused on Venice but extends south to Florence, west to include Piacenza, Ferrara and Crema and north to the Alps. Fantastic detail of the countryside identifies small villages, roads, topography, rivers and more. The fortified cities of Urbino, Bologne, Modena, Mantova, Vicenza, Parma are located. The large and very handsome title cartouche depicts royalty, soldiers, Mercury…

    • Author: HOMANN Johann Baptist
    • Dimension: 48,5 x 58 cm
    • Place of publication: Nuremberg
    • Year: 1716
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    One of the most decorative eighteenth century world maps. This J.B. Homann’s double hemisphere map of the world is richly embellished with celestial models of the northern and southern hemispheres and other natural phenomena such as waterspouts, a rainbow, earthquakes, and the Mt. Etna in Sicily erupting. Wind heads occupy the starry heavens, and two cherubs hold the title banner aloft. The map includes many famous cartographic inaccuracies with an unusually elongated northwest coastline in North America, labeled Terra Esonis. It also shows an incomplete Australia, although with place names and notes of the early discoverers included. The east coast of New Zealand is shown, along with the Tracts of Tasman’s 1642 voyage and Magellan’s Voyage. The detail in Southeast Asia is very interesting for the period, as is the treatment of Japan. Interesting text panels at bottom describe the natural phenomena.

    • Author: HOMANN Johann Baptist
    • Dimension: 48,5 x 55 cm
    • Place of publication: Nuremberg
    • Year: 1720
  • antica mappa sicilia sardegna

    A very decorative map of Sicily and Sardinia from J.B. Homann’s Atlas Novus Terrarum published in Nuremberg in 1720. In the upper middle is a allegoric large cartouche with the title “Regnorum Siciliae et Sardiniae nova tabula?. Embellished by compass rose, vessels and in the lower left plan of Catania with the famous vulcan Etna erupting and in the right with La Valletta. [cod.087/15]

    • Author: HOMANN Johann Baptist
    • Year: 1720
    • Dimension: 580 x 500 mm
    • Place of publication: Nuremberg