Description
Rare, large-format wall map of Swabia after J. L. Kolleffel by J. A. Pfeffel by Homann Erben. Showing the area between Mannheim, Landau, Strasbourg, Bern, Basel, Zurich, Lucerne, Kaufbeuren, Augsburg. With Ulm, Stuttgart, the Black Forest and Lake Constance. To the upper left the title cartouche. First published around 1745. The Homann Heires had bought the printing plates from Pfeffel and added a different grid. Printed in total from 8 plates. Each sheet mounted in 9 segments on canvas. In the original cardboard slipcase.
Condition
Margins a little bit trimmed.
Cartographer
Johann Baptist Homann was born 1664 in Oberkammlach. He founded his business 1602 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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