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HOMANN, Johann Baptist (1663-1724). Neuer Atlas...über die Gantze Welt. Nuremberg: Homann, 1710.
HOMANN, Johann Baptist (1663-1724). Neuer Atlas...über die Gantze Welt. Nuremberg: Homann, 1710. 2 o (513 x 323 mm). Hand-colored engraved allegorical frontispiece, letterpress title printed in red and black, decorated with an engraved vignette map of the world on a north polar projection, 58 double-page engraved maps all colored by a contemporary hand (chipping and tears to some maps, heavier at beginning and end, with minor loss to some image margins, maps reinforced on verso, primarily lower and inner margins, list of plates with corner torn away and missing text supplied in early manuscript). Early boards (rebacked). Early edition, a finely colored example of the accomplished atlas production of Johann Homann in the early decades of the 18th century. The maps are well designed, engraved and colored, and include the world, continents, America (depicting California as an island) and various astronomical plates. This 1710 issue of the Atlas Novus with 58 maps is one of the earlier productions of the Homann family, and is far superior to the atlases issued from 1730 onwards, when the plates began to wear and the commerical returns for the new partners cheapened the production of this classic German atlas. With an additional early 19th-century pictorial manuscript title "Atlas über die gantze Welt."