BOHEMIAE REGNUM in XII Circulos divisum

Maker / Publisher:		HOMANN HEIRS
Place & Date:		Nurenberg, 1733
Colored:		In attractive original colors.
Size:		475 x 554 mm / 18.7 x 21.8 inches
Condition:		Little soiling and occasional foxing in margins mostly, 2 tiny wormholes, crimpfold parallel to centerfold [not very much visible], old reinforcement of upper and lower centerfold on back. In generally good condition.

Description

Important and very detailed large copper engraved map of the former Kingdom of Bohemia by the leading, in his time, german cartographer.

Hundreds of Towns and villages are shown . In original old color.

Johann Baptist Homann (1664-1724) was born in Oberkammlach the Electorate of Bavaria Although educated at a Jesuit school and preparing for an ecclesiastical career he eventually converted to Protestantism and from 1687 worked as a civil law notary in Nuremberg. He soon turned to engraving and cartography; in 1702 he founded his own publishing house. Homann, renown as the leading German cartographer in 1715 was appointed Imperial Geographer by Emperor Charles VI.

Giving such privileges to individuals was an added right that the Holy Roman Emperor enjoyed. In the same year he was also named a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin .

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