Homann Heirs' Map of the Americas Printed Area Measurement_33 x 48.5 cm

Homann Heirs' Map of the Americas Printed Area Measurement_33 x 48.5 cmOur map of the Americas was prepared for the Homann firm by Johann Matthias Hase, professor of mathematics in Wittenberg, on his stereographic horizontal projection; Hase died in 1742, and many of his maps were published posthumously. His map replaced one of 1710, engraved by the founder of the Homann business, Johann Baptist Homann (1664 1724) Homanns original map had undergone several revisions (in particular the transition of California from island

including ‘blood and guts’ Patton

Mount Keenia had been sighted by a German missionary in 1849

11cm tear to left of centrefold closed without loss

map extracted from an old frame

[xiv] cols

Voyage en ballon dirigeable a travers l’Europe

printed area 34 x 47 cm

with paper title-label to spine: 'Krieg und Frieden'

June 1861 Bradshaw from the household of Prince Albert

including the Archontologia Cosmica and Theatrum Europaeum

to commercial publishers to be bound into guide books

which seems highly probable