Lot 189
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HOMANN, Johann Baptist [and others]. [Composite Atlas, Nuremberg, ca. 1750], 2° (530 x 310mm.), 41 hand-coloured double-page engraved maps and 2 hand-coloured double-page plates of various instruments of war (verso of plates strengthened with laminate, partly affecting illustrations, final 4 maps repaired with loss, minor other marginal repairs, staining), modern brown morocco gilt.

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HOMANN, Johann Baptist [and others]. [Composite Atlas, Nuremberg, ca. 1750], 2° (530 x 310mm.), 41 hand-coloured double-page engraved maps and 2 hand-coloured double-page plates of various instruments of war (verso of plates strengthened with laminate, partly affecting illustrations, final 4 maps repaired with loss, minor other marginal repairs, staining), modern brown morocco gilt.

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This composite atlas includes maps both by J.B. Homann and Homann Heirs. It comprises a world map; 3 maps of continents of Europe, Asia and Americas; 37 maps of Europe and Russia (including Great Britain and 27 of Germany and Central Europe).

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