Homann, Johann Baptist

Folio (520 x 320mm., engraved allegorical title, 110 double-page engraved general and regional maps, several by Homann's Heirs and a map of Zeeland by Blaeu, contemporary body colour, nineteenth-century sheep, title cut down and mounted (with slight loss), Blaeu map cut down and mounted to size, a few small repairs, some occasional browning, bindings rubbed

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Following the decline of the great Dutch publishers, the Homann family became one of the most important map publishing houses in Germany. Founded in Nuremberg by Johann Baptist Homann in 1702, the Homann firm dominated Germany's map market for over a century. Homann published his first major atlas in 1707 and was soon after appointed Geographer to the Emperor. After Homann's death in 1724, the firm was continued by his son until 1730 and continued to produce maps until the beginning of the nineteenth century.