Homann, Johann Baptist [and Heirs]

Folio (508 x 325mm.), engraved allegorical title page, manuscript index in ink at end of atlas and 204 double-page engraved maps, plans, charts and diagrams by Homann, Lotter and Seutter, contemporary body colour, nineteenth-century half calf, title on spine “Atlas Universalis”, some worming, several maps and plans cut close to neatline, some marginal browning or soiling, binding worn

A very typical eighteenth-century German atlas or Sammelatlas, a composite atlas with several publishers' maps. As usual with Homann atlases, the contents vary considerably and the town plans and panoramas in the present copy include: Vienna, Florence, Lisbon, Madrid, Paris, Amsterdam, Tunis, Venice, Berlin, Copenhagen, Constantinople; charts after Dopplemayr and Hevelius and curiosities such as the geographical clock, the plates of the Roman Emperors, the Popes and a map of Utopia.