Simona Oprea
Head of Oriental Art, Traditional Art & Carpets Evaluation Office; Chinese Language Certificate HSK 4
104. Title page, 'The Grand Atlas of Universal Geography', by Johann Baptist Homann, Nürenberg, 1715
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104. Title page, 'The Grand Atlas of Universal Geography', by Johann Baptist Homann, Nürenberg, 1715
Starting price:
EUR 700
Not sold
hand-coloured copper engraving, laid paper, 57 x 66 cm, 57 Ã 66 cm
The German cartographer and geographer Johann Baptist Homann (1664-1724) published in 1716 his famous work, 'The Great Atlas of the World' or 'The Great Universal Atlas', of which this piece is a part. Engraving on copper, manually coloured after imprinting.
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