HOMANN HEIRS
CARTE DES INDES ORIENTALES
Year: 1748Size: 58.6 x 54.2 cm (23 x 21.3 inches)
Maker/Published by: Homan Heirs.
A lovely hand-coloured two-jointed sheet map of the East Indies, drawn by Tobias Meyer for the Homann Heirs in 1748. The first sheet shows India as far north as Delhi, across to Assam, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, and Sumatra. Portuguese Goa is highlighted.
Also Maldives and Ceylon. Rhumb lines, mileage scales, and a very decorative title cartouche lower centre of map.
The second sheet covers eastern China and Formosa, the Philippines, Borneo, Java, the Celebes, the Moluccas, Timor, Papua New Guinea, and the very tip of northern Australia.
Homann Heirs (1730–1848)
Homann Heirs was a map publishing house in Germany during the late 18th century. Intially, it was run by Johann Baptist Homann, and after his death, the company was continued by his son, Johann Christoph. Christoph, perhaps realising that he would not long survive his father, stipulated in his will that the company would be inherited by his two head managers, Johann Michael Franz and Johann George, and that would have published only under the name of ‘Homann Heirs’.
Provenance : Collection of a Gentleman
Good Condition
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