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Homann Heirs' Map of Scandinavia

SKU: 9178
£375.00

Title:
Homann Heirs' Map of Scandinavia

Date of publication:

  • 1776
  • Printed Measurement:

  • 50.5 x 57.5 cm
  • Colour:

  • original
  • Scandinavia complectens Sveciae, Daniae et Norvegiae Regna ex novissimis subsidiis delineata et ad Leges Projectionis Stereographicae legitimae reducta ab Augusto Gottlob Boehmio

    This map of Scandinavia was prepared for the Homann firm by August Gottlob Boehme (1719-1797). Read more

    The founder of the Homann business, Johann Baptist Homann (1664-1724), was a self-taught copper engraver who founded the leading German cartographic publishing house of the eighteenth-century. He was appointed cartographer to the Holy Roman Emperor in 1715, and his maps were sold throughout Europe.

    After Homann's death the business was continued by his son, Johann Christoph, and then by the Homann Heirs (his friend Johann Michael Franz and his stepsister's husband, the engraver Johann Georg Ebersberger).

    Condition & Materials

    Copper engraving, 50.5 x 57.5 cm, original hand colour, one or two marginal nicks and tears, blank verso.  Read less