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Belli Typus in Italia victricis Aquilae progressus in statu Mediolanensi et Ducatu Mantuae demonstrans.
[Nuremberg]
1702
Size :
55 x 47 cm
Color :
Coloris original
Condition :
Très bon
Technique :
Copper engraving
Reference : 242-4-9
$217
Description
Rare map partially watercolored at the time, with colored borders, representing mainly the state of Milan.
It is decorated with a beautiful title cartouche illustrating in particular the battle of Cremona of February 1702 which opposed the French and Austrian armies within the framework of the War of the Spanish Succession.
HOMANN, Johann Baptist
Johann Baptist Homann (1663-1724) was born in Kammlach. He was an engraver and cartographer. In 1702 he founded his own publishing house in Nuremberg. The maps and atlases published under his name became among the most influential of the 18th century. Around 1707, he became a member of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences. In 1715 he was appointed geographer to the Kaiser of the Holy Roman Empire. He worked as an engraver for Funek, Jacob von Sandrart and Scherer. His works include the Atlas (1704), the Neuer Atlas (1707), the Grosser Atlas (1716) and the Atlas Methodicus (1719). After his death, his son, Johann Christoph, took over the business and continued to run the publishing house. After J. C.'s death, his heirs continued to run the publishing house as the Homann heirs, which lasted for almost a century after its foundation. Later works by Homann's heirs include Grosser Atlas (1731, 1737), Kleiner Atlas, Doppelmayer's Celestial Atlas (1742), Geographia Maior (1759) and Atlas Hommanianus (1762). Moreland and Bannister, 84; Tooley, 308