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cosmographers and geographers of the 16th century, as
well as an accomplished scientific instrument maker. He
is most famous for introducing Mercators Projection, a
system which allowed navigators to plot the same
constant compass bearing on a flat map.
Johann Baptist Homann was a German cartographer
who set up his own publishing company in 1702. It was
the most successful map publishing company of the
18th century. After publishing his first atlas in 1707 he
became a member of the Berlin Academy of Sciences.
In 1715 Homann was appointed to be Imperial
Geographer of the Holy Roman Empire.
His first maps were published in 1537 (Palestine), and
1538 (a map of the world), although his main
occupation at this time was globe-making. He later
moved to Duisburg, in Germany, where he produced his
outstanding wall maps of Europe and of Britain. In 1569
he published his masterpiece, the twenty-one-sheet map
of the world, constructed on Mercator's projection. His
Atlas, sive Cosmographicae Meditationes de Fabrica
Mundi, was completed by his son Rumold and
published in 1595. After Rumold's death in 1599, the
plates for the atlas were published by Gerard Jr.
Following his death in 1604, the printing stock was
bought at auction by Jodocus Hondius, and re-issued
well into the seventeenth century.
[27763]
£800
Condition: Light discolouration to centre fold.
[27563]
£750
Asia & Middle East
168. Tartaria
Copper engraved with hand colour
Mercator, Gerard & Hondius, Jodocus
Amsterdam, c.1633
337 x 488 mm
framed
English Text on verso.
Published in Hondius' editions of the Mercator Atlas
from 1606 onwards, showing China, Korea and the
northern Pacific coast of America showing the two
continents separated by the Straits of Anian
169. L’Empire de la Chine dressé d’après les Cartes de
l’Atlas Chinois. Par le Sr. Robert de Vaugondy,
Geographe ordinaire du Roi. Avec Privilege. 1751.
Copper engraved with hand colour
Vaugondy, Robert de
Paris 1751
483 x 525 mm
unmounted
From De Vaugondy's Atlas Universel, one of the most
important atlases of the eighteenth-century, and
published in 1757. The older material was revised with
the addition of many new place names. In 1760, Robert
de Vaugondy was appointed geographer to Louis XV.
Condition: centre fold as issued
[27279]
£500
Gerard Mercator (1512 - 1594) originally a student of
philosophy was one of the most renowned