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Johann Homann: Bavariae Circulus et Electorat Insuadquasque Ditiones tam cum Adiacentibus Quam Insertis Regionibus accuratissime divisus part Jo: Baptistam Homannum Norimbergae. - La cercle de Baviere, qui comprend la regence d'Amberg …   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Johann Homann  (1664–1724)  wikidata:Q62706
 
Johann Homann
Alternative names
Johann Baptist Homann; Ioannis Baptista Homann; Johann-Baptista Homann; Johann Baptista Homann
Description German cartographer, publisher and copperplate engraver
Date of birth/death 20 March 1664 Edit this at Wikidata 1 July 1724 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Kammlach Nuremberg
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Nuremberg Edit this at Wikidata
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artist QS:P170,Q62706
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Bavariae Circulus et Electorat Insuadquasque Ditiones tam cum Adiacentibus Quam Insertis Regionibus accuratissime divisus part Jo: Baptistam Homannum Norimbergae. - La cercle de Baviere, qui comprend la regence d'Amberg …<-i>
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English: This is a rare and attractive map of Bavaria, Germany. Covers from Rabiz as far south as Innsbruck, including Munich, Salzburg, Passau, Bamberg, Nuremberg and Augsburg. Detail includes cities, forts, some topographical features, and districts. Stunning decorative title cartouche in the upper right quadrant featuring soldiers, cherubs, greed gods, and armorial decorations. Additional title, in French, in upper margin La cercle de Baviere, qui comprend la regence d'Amberg … Prepared by J.B. Homann and issued as plate no. 10 in Homann Heirs’ Maior Atlas Scholasticus.
Deutsch: Karte von Bayern im Jahre 1728.
Date 1728 (undated)
Dimensions height: 22.5 in (57.1 cm); width: 19 in (48.2 cm)
dimensions QS:P2048,22.5U218593
dimensions QS:P2049,19U218593
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Major Atlas Scholasticus Ex Triginta sex Generalibus et Specialibus Mappis Homannianis..., c. 1730. / Also issued in Homann's Grosser Atlas

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