MAP OF ST. PETERSBURG -- HOMANN, Johann Baptist (1663-1724). Topographische Vorstellung der neuen Russischenhaupt-Residenz und See-Stadt St. Petersburg . Nuremberg: [1718]. Hand-coloured engraved full-sheet map (586 x 688mm), deckle edges. (Faint dampstain at upper edge, slight fraying at margin.) UNVERTZAGT, G.I., engraver. Plan Imperatorskago Stolichnago Goroda Sankt Peterburga Plan der Kayserl. Residentz Stadt St. Petersburg . [St. Petersburg:] 1737. Engraved full-sheet map (543 x 760mm), title and explanatory text in Russian and German, 'Tab. I' in upper corner of plate, deckle edges. BM cat. 8: 949. The Homann map is ONE OF THE FIRST PUBLISHED DESCRIPTIONS OF ST. PETERSBURG. The map depicts the development of the city, founded only 15 years earlier in 1703, drawn up by Domenico Trezzini architect for Peter the Great, and includes the recently settled Vasil'evskii Island. BM cat. 8:949; cf. Russia Engages the World, 1453-1825 , C.H. Whittaker, ed., 2003, n° 16. (2)
MAP OF ST. PETERSBURG -- HOMANN, Johann Baptist (1663-1724). Topographische Vorstellung der neuen Russischenhaupt-Residenz und See-Stadt St. Petersburg . Nuremberg: [1718]. Hand-coloured engraved full-sheet map (586 x 688mm), deckle edges. (Faint dampstain at upper edge, slight fraying at margin.) UNVERTZAGT, G.I., engraver. Plan Imperatorskago Stolichnago Goroda Sankt Peterburga Plan der Kayserl. Residentz Stadt St. Petersburg . [St. Petersburg:] 1737. Engraved full-sheet map (543 x 760mm), title and explanatory text in Russian and German, 'Tab. I' in upper corner of plate, deckle edges. BM cat. 8: 949. The Homann map is ONE OF THE FIRST PUBLISHED DESCRIPTIONS OF ST. PETERSBURG. The map depicts the development of the city, founded only 15 years earlier in 1703, drawn up by Domenico Trezzini architect for Peter the Great, and includes the recently settled Vasil'evskii Island. BM cat. 8:949; cf. Russia Engages the World, 1453-1825 , C.H. Whittaker, ed., 2003, n° 16. (2)
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