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Lot 64
  • 64

Homann, Johann Baptist [and Heirs]

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 GBP
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Description

  • Atlas Novus. Nuremberg, [1760]
  • paper
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

Catalogue Note

A late edition of this very typical eighteenth-century German atlas or Sammelatlas, a composite atlas with several publishers' maps, unlike the previous lot. As usual with Homann atlases, the contents vary considerably. The town plans and panoramas in the present copy include: Vienna, Florence, Lisbon, Madrid, Paris, Amsterdam, Tunis, Venice, Berlin, Copenhagen, Constantinople; with 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.