Homann Heirs’ Environs of London Bulgaria 43 x 34 cm

43 x 34 cm

This miniature map of Prussia is from the first edition of Tabularum geographicarum contractarum libri

In the event

The practical pocket sea atlas by Marseilles hydrographer Joseph Roux

Homann Heirs’ Environs of London Bulgaria 43 x 34 cmRegionis, quae est circa Londinum [] This map follows Thomas Bowles A New and Correct Map of Thirty Miles round London published c. 1740. The founder of the business, Johann Baptist Homann (1664 1724), was a self taught copper engraver who founded the leading German cartographic publishing house of the eighteenth century. Homann was appointed cartographer to the Holy Roman Emperor in 1715, and his maps were sold throughout Europe. After his death his