Accurata Utopiae tabula. Das ist der Neu-entdeckten Schalck-Welt, oder des so offt...

Old coloured map of Utopia, Land of Cockaigne. Printed by Homann Erben circa 1740.

Reference 12979

Description

The Famous Sought After Fantasy Map of Utopia.

Schlaraffenland means Land of Cockaigne or Land of milk and honey in German and represents a country of idleness and luxury. This is a totally imaginary map, but constructed in conventional forms. "An extraordinary, fantastic map". (R.V. Tooley)

The map is divided into 19 provinces, each representing a vice or sin. The anonymous author criticizes the eating, drinking, loving and living habits of his time. The actual land of milk and honey is surrounded by the following provinces:

- Senectas regio (doter land)
- Iuventae Regnum (youth land)
- Stultorum regnum (fool land)
- Bibonia Regnum (carouser land)
- Magni Stomachi Imperium (land of large stomach)
- Pigritarium regio (sluggard land)
- Terra Sancta Incognita (wishful thinking land)
- Mammonia (niggard land)
- Schlaraffenland
- Tartaria regnum (empire of hell)
- Res Publica Veneria (land of bawdiness)
- Lusoria (land of gambling)
- Iuronia regnum (curse land)
- Lurconia Regnum (gourmandise land)
- Prodigalia regnum (waste land)
- Insulae Negromanticae
- Insel Tobaco

The map goes back to the 1694 work Das neu entdeckte Schlarraffenland. Johann Andreas Schnebelins Erklärung der Wunder-seltzamen Land-Charten Utopiae and according to Koeman was first published by P. Schenk from 1700/10 in the Atlas Contractus. The first Homann edition published around 1716, is different from Schenk's print only by 3 underlines in the title. The later editions by Homann and Homann Heirs have the slightly different title "durch Autor anonymus Prostat in Officina Homanniana", the following editions by Seutter have a completely different cartouche.

Details

Cartographer	Johann Baptist Homann
Title	Accurata Utopiae tabula. Das ist der Neu-entdeckten Schalck-Welt, oder des so offt benannten, und doch nie erkannten Schlaraffenlandes neu erfundene lächerliche Land-tabelle... durch Author anonymus
Publisher, Year	Homann Erben, circa 1740
Plate Size	48.9 x 57.0 cm (19.3 x 22.4 inches)
Sheet Size	53.1 x 62.5 cm (20.9 x 24.6 inches)
Reference	Hill, G.: Cartographic Curiosities, pp. 57-58; Tooley, R.V.: Geographical Oddities, No. 87.

Condition

Some browning and spotting, lower centrefold backed, small hole to the right. Very good condition.

Cartographer

Johann Baptist Homann was born 1664 in Oberkammlach. He founded his business 1702 in Nuremberg, Germany. After a long period of Dutch domination in map publishing, the Homann publishing house became the most important map and atlas producer in Germany. He became a member of the Academy of Science in Berlin just after he published his first atlas in 1707. After his death 1724 in Nuremberg, the company was continued by his son Johann Christoph. The publishing firm was bequeathed to his heirs after his death in 1730 and was traded under the name Homann Heirs until the next century.

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Old coloured map of Utopia, Land of Cockaigne. Printed by Homann Erben circa 1740.

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