1737 – Homann Heirs – Potentissimo Borussorum

Title:                      “Potentissimo Borussorum Regi Friderico Wilhelmo Maiestate, Fortitudine Clementia Augustissimo Hancce Lithuaniam Borussicam : in qua luca coloniis Salisburg., ad incolendum Regio nutu concessa chorographice exhibentur D. D. D. Regiae Suae Maiestatis.”​
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Description:
The map of an area of Lithuania and Eastern Prussia (Russian province of Kaliningrad)including Klaipėda ( Memel ), Šilutė, Neringa regions, Lithuania. A very detailed map showing many towns, small villages, forests and rivers. With a large figurative cartouche and a plan of the city of Gumbinnen (now Gusev, in the Kaliningrad Oblast), built by Frederick William I.

Comes from Homan’s atlas “Grosser Atlas ueber die ganze Welt” contributed by Johann-Friedrich Betgen, engraved and issued by Homann Heirs publishing house in Nürnberg, 1737.

Cartographer:      Johann Baptist Homann (1664-1724)
Leafs size:               53,3 x 61,5 cm
Year:                          1737
Technique:              copper engraving

Condition:
Good condition. Attractive contemporary hand coloring.
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This is an original antique map published in 1737 and NOT a modern copy or reprint