A GENERAL MAP OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND

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Attractive map of the British Isles is filled with details on provinces, towns and counties, with the Orkney Islands included in an inset at upper right. A table at the lower right includes symbols for cities, market towns, bishoprics, roads, ferries and bogs among other places of note. Highly decorative cartouche is topped with the crest of Britain. There is a second title above the map: A General Map of Great Britain and Ireland with Part of Holland, Flanders, France &c Agreeable to Modern History.

From Homann's rare English edition of his major atlas.

Printed on heavy paper. Good original colour. Slight printers crease otherwise very good condition.

code : M2799

Cartographer : Homann Family

Date : 1729

Size : 50*57 cms

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Johann Baptist Homann (1664-1724) started his career in Amsterdam as an apprentice with the Danckerts family before returning to Nuremberg to establish himself in business in 1702.

The firm quickly became the principal geographical publishers in Germany and in 1715 Homann was appointed Geographer to the Holy Roman Emperor and he was also a member of the Prussian Royal Academy of Sciences.

His publications included the "Neuer Atlas Ueber Die Gantze Welt ..." in 1707-. The "Grosser Atlas ..." of 1716- and the "Atlas Novus Terrarum Orbis Imperioa" in c.1720, as well as many others. Johann died in 1724 and was succeeded by his son Johann Christoph who died in 1730. After his death the firm took the name Homann's Heirs and continued thereafter until 1813. Publications with the Homann's Heirs' imprint included the "Grosser Atlas" in 1731, Doppelmays'r "Atlas Coelestis ..." in 1742 and the "Atlas Geographicus Maior ..." in 1753-, amongst others. Throughout this entire period the firm were the leading map publishers in Germany, employing a number of very important cartographers