Copperplate engraving, original period coloring with charming black-and-white cartouche, mm 498 x 570. Good specimen with slight traces of surface soiling and slight reddening to the central fold. J.B. Homann, one of the most celebrated European cartographers of the eighteenth century, was born in Nuremberg in 1663; he worked initially for David Funk and James Sandrart and until the early eighteenth century, in 1702, he began his own cartographic production, soon achieving considerable success for its elegance and mode rnity, well blending scientific and decorative aspect. In 1707 he published the first atlas, rapidly enriching it until it exceeded a hundred maps with the “Grosser Atlas” of 126 maps. He died in 1723.