Maps, title page, Atlas, Johann Baptist Homann

"Atlas Homannius Mathematico Historice delineatus"

Title page of the Atlas by Johann Baptist Homann (1664-1724)

Copper etching heightened with gum arabicum

The title cartouche held by two winged putti. Below title Helios (Sol) with aureola in his chariot drawn through the skies by four stallions, surrounded by a glistening aureole. Towards him rides, in her chariot, drawn by two doves, Aphrodite (Venus).

Below title cartouche and the described inset we see a large globe of the earth, with the "Old World", Europe, Afric, Asia facing us. A young winged male angel measuring the earth with a compass and relating his measurements to a female angel who writes the into a book of geography atlas). As we turn our eyes to the right foreground of the engraving, we see Urania, muse of astrolomy, holding a telescope, and in her other hand a measuring instrument. Her garb its sparkling with stars.

Copper etching with gum arabicum by Andreas Hoffer after the drawing by Johann Justus Preisler

Nuremberg, dated 1762

Original antique print 

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Condition is very good. Verso no print. Narrow margins all around. Verso: few minor traces of age and use.

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