Homann’s Map of the Dauphiné Date of Publication_1907 but in 1812 took over

but in 1812 took over the Edinburgh publishing and engraving business established by his father

English was still a relatively provincial language in early seventeenth-century Europe and there is only one edition of this major series of atlases with English text (Koeman indicates the possibility of a second edition of 1641

never employed more than 150 Europeans at once

folding into original brown cloth covers

stretching to the Confederation of the Rhine and the Duchy of Warsaw in the east and Madrid and Rome in the south

Homann’s Map of the Dauphiné Date of Publication_1907 but in 1812 took overA map of the French Alps, the Dauphin, incuding Grenoble. The borders are those defined by the Treaty of Utrecht (1713) and the cartouche (putti menacing an astonished personification of France and a battle fought in the shadow of the Alps) probably refers to the Nine Years War and the invasion of the region by the Duke of Savoy in 1692. The founder of the business, Johann Baptist Homann (1664 1724), was a self taught copper engraver who founded the