Homann Heirs' Map of the Americas Printed Area Measurement_33 x 48.5 cm including the Archontologia Cosmica and

including the Archontologia Cosmica and Theatrum Europaeum

to commercial publishers to be bound into guide books

11cm tear to left of centrefold closed without loss

including ‘blood and guts’ Patton

Homann Heirs' Map of the Americas Printed Area Measurement_33 x 48.5 cm including the Archontologia Cosmica andOur map of the Americas was prepared for the Homann firm by Johann Matthias Hase, professor of mathematics in Wittenberg, on his stereographic horizontal projection; Hase died in 1742, and many of his maps were published posthumously. His map replaced one of 1710, engraved by the founder of the Homann business, Johann Baptist Homann (1664 1724) Homanns original map had undergone several revisions (in particular the transition of California from island