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Digital Image: 1735 Homann Heirs Map of Corsica During its Revolution
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Title
Insulae Corsicae accurata Chorographia Tradita per I. Vogt Capit. S.C.M. et excusa Studio Homannian Heredum Norib. MDCCXXXV Cum Priv. S.C.M.
1735 (dated) 21.75 x 19.25 in (55.245 x 48.895 cm) 1 : 550000
1735 (dated) 21.75 x 19.25 in (55.245 x 48.895 cm) 1 : 550000
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Homann Heirs (1730 - 1848) were a map publishing house based in Nurenburg, Germany, in the middle to late 18th century. After the great mapmaker Johann Baptist Homann's (1664 - 1724) death in 1724, management of the firm passed to his son Johann Christoph Homann (1703 - 1730). J. C. Homann, perhaps realizing that he would not long survive his father, stipulated in his will that the company would be inherited by his two head managers, Johann Georg Ebersberger (1695 - 1760) and Johann Michael Franz (1700 - 1761), and that it would publish only under the name 'Homann Heirs'. This designation, in various forms (Homannsche Heirs, Heritiers de Homann, Lat Homannianos Herod, Homannschen Erben, etc..) appears on maps from about 1731 onwards. The firm continued to publish maps in ever diminishing quantities until the death of its last owner, Christoph Franz Fembo (1781 - 1848). More by this mapmaker...
Johann Vogt (fl. 1734) was a German officer and the only credited source for the first, contemporary 18th century mapping of the island of Corsica. Virtually nothing is known of him, apart from the map bearing his name, and a reference to a 1735 travelogue - 'Beschreibung der Insel Corsica' - which was apparently printed in Nuremberg and Altdorf, but has not survived in institutional collections. Its existence is hinted at only by a bibliographical reference in John Pinkerton's 1808 'A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in All Parts of the World.' We do not see any book of this title surviving in any institutional collection. Vogt's map appears first in 1734, printed by the firm of Homann Heirs. It was copied later by Ottens in 1737, and again in 1769 by the French mapmaker Vaugondy and the Spanish mapmaker Lopez. Vogt's title, 'Capit. S.C.M.' indicates that he was an officer of the Holy Roman Empire, and was most probably German; perhaps a military engineer accompanying the 12000 Imperial troops sent in 1732 to Corsica in order to put down the revolution which had broken out there. Learn More...
Source
Homann, J. B. and Homann, J. C., Neuer Atlas bestehend in einig curieusen Astronomischen Kuppren und vielen auserlesenen accuratensten Land-Charten über die Gantze Welt, (Nuremberg: Homann), 1728.
Homann's Neuer Atlas bestehend in einig curieusen Astronomischen Kuppren und vielen auserlesenen accuratensten Land-Charten über die Gantze Welt was first publihsed in 1707 with 33 maps. A second edition followed in 1710 with 60 maps. Subsequent editions followed until about 1730. The title page notes proudly that the atlas features measurements based on the 'Copernican principle of the moving sky', a truly state-of-the-art innovation for the period. Regardless of editions, collations of the atlas are inconsistent, with some examples having less, while others have more maps - a consequence of the fact that the map sheets were delivered loose, to be bound at the buyer's discretion, and so some buyers chose to omit maps they did not consider relevant, or add others they did. Between editions, the constituent maps, particularly of European regions, were regularly updated to reflect the most recent political events. The atlas continued to be published by Homann's son, J. C. Homann (1703 - 1730), and then by Homann Heirs. Most examples also feature a fine allegorical frontispiece with the title Atlas Novus Terrarum Orbis Imperia, regna et Status, which was used for multiple Homann atlases, including the Neuer Atlas and the Atlas Minor.
References
OCLC 159899904. Rumsey 12499.091.