Novissima & Exactissima Totius Regni Neapolis Tabula ...

Old coloured map of Southern Italy (Italia meridionale) by Johann Baptist Homann. Shows the southern regions of Italy between L'Aquila and Gaeta in the northwest, Naples (Napoli) and the southern tip of Italy with parts of Sicily, Messina. With a beautiful, skillful finished title cartouche and a mileage scale.

Water stain in upper white margin. Small tear in lower centrefold backed. Very good condition with old colours. Never framed before.

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.