LIST ON EBAY Между листами оргалита DENMARK & SOUTHERN SWEDN 1720 HOMANN ANTIQUE ORIGINAL COPPER ENGRAVED MAP ANTIQUE ORIGINAL COPPER ENGRAVED MAP OF DENMARK 1720 Condition: --not specified Ended: Oct 25, 2023 22:09:35 PDT Winning bid: US $75.00 DENMARK & SOUTHERN SWEDN 1720 HOMANN ANTIQUE ORIGINAL COPPER ENGRAVED MAP Description Regni Daniae in quo sunt Ducatus Holsatia et Slesvicum Insulж Danicж Provinciж Iutia Scania Blekingia Nova Tabula edita а Io. Baptista Homanno Noribergж et aucta secundum Geographiam novissimam Johann Hьbneri J. U. L. Description: Striking and highly detailed fine unusual 1720 Johann Baptist Homann's copper engraved map of Denmark, Covers also north-western part of Germany and south-western part of Sweden. The map is filled with topographic details on cities, towns, lakes, fjords, rivers, sandbanks, islands and hills. A large figurate style title cartouche with Armorial , a simple compasss rose and three mileage scales complete the map. Date: 1720 ( undated ) Dimension: Map size approx.: cm 61,8 x 53,3 Condition: Very strong and dark impression on good paper. Paper with chains and wiremarks. Map old original colored. Good margins. Corners partially missing. Small foxing and browning. Paper with waterstains. Tear at the lower side along central folding affecting partially the map. Map folded. Conditions are as you can see in the images. Mapmakers: Johann Baptist Homann (March 20, 1664 - July 1, 1724) was the most prominent and prolific map publisher of the 18th century. Homann was born in Oberkammlach, a small town near Kammlach, Bavaria, Germany. As a young man Homann studied in a Jesuit school and nursed ambitions of becoming a Dominican priest before converting to Protestantism in 1687. Following his conversion, Homann moved to Nuremberg and found employment as a notary. Around 1693 Homan briefly relocated to Vienna, where he lived and studied printing and copper plate engraving until 1695. Afterwards he returned to Nuremberg where, in 1702, he founded the commercial publishing firm that would bear his name. In the next five years Homann produced hundreds of maps and developed a distinctive style characterized by heavy detailed engraving, elaborate allegorical cartouche work, and vivid hand color. The Homann firm, due to the lower cost of printing in Germany, was able to undercut the dominant French and Dutch publishing houses while matching the diversity and quality of their output. By 1715 Homann's rising star caught the attention of the Holy Roman Emperor Charles the VI, who appointed him Imperial Cartographer. In the same year he was also appointed a member of the Royal Academy of Sciences in Berlin. Homann's prestigious title came with a number of important advantages including access to the most up to date cartographic information as well as the "Privilege". The Privilege was a type of early copyright offered to a few individuals by the Holy Roman Emperor. Though not as sophisticated as modern copyright legislation, the Privilege did offer a kind of limited protection for several years. Most all J. B. Homann maps printed between 1715 and 1730 bear the inscription "Cum Priviligio" or some variation. Following Homann's death in 1726, the management of the firm passed to his son Johann Christoph Homann (1703 - 1730). J. C. Homann, perhaps realizing that he would not long survive his father, stipulated in his will that the company would be inherited by his two head managers, Johann Georg Ebersberger and Johann Michael Franz, and that it would publish only under the name Homann Heirs. This designation, in various forms (Homannsche Heirs, Heritiers de Homann, Lat Homannianos Herod, Homannschen Erben, etc..) appears on maps from about 1731 onwards. The firm continued to publish maps in ever diminishing quantities until the death of its last owner, Christoph Franz Fembo in 1848. Ehrenreich Gerhard Coldewey (*August 7 , 1702 in Oldenburg; May 14, 1773 in Aurich ) was a learned lawyer, poet and connoisseur of the history and constitution as well as maps and coins of East Friesland . The map of Ostfriesland published by Homann in Nuremberg at Coldewey's instigation from 1730 (engraved by Johann Christian Homann), is of great importance.