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HOMANN (Johann Battist) : GROSSER ATLAS uber die gantze Welt, Nuremberg,Johann Ernst Adelbulner, 1725
large folio (430 x 340mm), title printed in red and black with engraved vignette of the world, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, portrait of Charles VI, 2pp printed index of maps, 4pp manuscript alphabetical index,199 HAND-COLOURED ENGRAVED MAPS, PLANS AND VIEWS, all double-page (small tears to folds of 6 maps, outer margin of the plan of Naples slightly soiled, inner margin of title strengthened, outer margin of portrait shaved), contemporary calf, central blind-stamped arabesques (rebacked, covers rubbed)
cf Phillips 586. A fine copy of one of Homann's largest and most substantial atlases. The first edition of the Grosser atlas was published in 1716 during Homann's lifetime. This issue, published a year after his death, is not recorded in Phillips or Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers. In 1731 an edition was published by Homann Heirs also printed by Adelbuhner, using the same title page.Phillips records an edition of 1737 with 148 maps. This copy does not conform exactly with the printed index which lists 200 maps; the map of Saxe-Lavenburgicus (number 125) and the final two plates are not present, although there is an additional view of Brandenburg by Peter Schenk, bound in after map 116, and a plate showing the flags of the world bound in at the end.
large folio (430 x 340mm), title printed in red and black with engraved vignette of the world, hand-coloured engraved frontispiece, portrait of Charles VI, 2pp printed index of maps, 4pp manuscript alphabetical index,199 HAND-COLOURED ENGRAVED MAPS, PLANS AND VIEWS, all double-page (small tears to folds of 6 maps, outer margin of the plan of Naples slightly soiled, inner margin of title strengthened, outer margin of portrait shaved), contemporary calf, central blind-stamped arabesques (rebacked, covers rubbed)
cf Phillips 586. A fine copy of one of Homann's largest and most substantial atlases. The first edition of the Grosser atlas was published in 1716 during Homann's lifetime. This issue, published a year after his death, is not recorded in Phillips or Tooley's Dictionary of Mapmakers. In 1731 an edition was published by Homann Heirs also printed by Adelbuhner, using the same title page.Phillips records an edition of 1737 with 148 maps. This copy does not conform exactly with the printed index which lists 200 maps; the map of Saxe-Lavenburgicus (number 125) and the final two plates are not present, although there is an additional view of Brandenburg by Peter Schenk, bound in after map 116, and a plate showing the flags of the world bound in at the end.