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1748 Homann Heirs Map of India, Southeast Asia, and the East Indies
IndesOrientales-homannheirs-1748$475.00
Title
Carte des Indes orientales dessinée suivant les observations les plus recentes, dont le principal est tirée des cartes hydrographiques de Mr. D'Apres de Mannevillette. Dediée tres humblement à Son Altesse Serenissime Monsgr. le Prince Guillaume Charles Henry Friso, Souverain Prince d'Orange, Pr. de S.E. de Nassa, Stadthoudre hereditaire, Admiral et General Capit. des Provinces unies etc. etc, Chevalier de l'Ordre de Jarretiere, par ses tres humbles et tres soumis serviteurs l'Auteur et les. Heritiers de Homan. I. Feuille dans la quelle on represente les Indes deca la Riviere de Ganges, le Golfe de Bengale, Siam, Malacca, Sumatra. II. Feuille, qui comprend les isles de Sonde, l'archipel des Philippines, & les isles Moluques. dresseé par Mr. Tobie Mayer de la Societé Geograph.
1748 (dated) 21 x 35 in (53.34 x 88.9 cm) 1 : 10500000
1748 (dated) 21 x 35 in (53.34 x 88.9 cm) 1 : 10500000
Description
This is a beautiful old color 1748 Homann Heirs map of India, Southeast Asia, and the East Indies. This map stretches from India, the Maldives, and Sri Lanka (Ceylon) in the west to the Marianas in the east, and China and Tibet in the north to Indonesia and Australia (Nova Hollandia) and centers on Southeast Asia, including Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam (Tonquin and Cochinchina) and Malaysia. Indonesia is labeled, including the islands of Sumatra, Java, and Borneo. Timor island is marked as well as New Guinea and Papua New Guinea. To the northeast lie the Philippines, where Luzon, Leyte, and several of the other islands in the archipelago are named. Taiwan (Formosa) lies to the north of the Philippines. The detail of this map is astounding. Delhi (Delly) appears on the map in India, as well as Portuguese Goa, the Ganges River, the Yangtze River, Nanjing (Nanking), Manila, and too many other cities, towns, and rivers to count.
Cartographically this map is derived from the work of the French cartographer and navigator Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas-Denis d'Après de Mannevillette (1707 – 1780). Mannevillette spent several years in the far east producing numerous surveys and updating older maps. His maritime atlas, the Neptune Oriental offered a wealth of new cartographic and maritime information in relation to the far east. It was published in 1745 and influenced numerous subsequent maps, as in the present 1748 example by Tobias Mayer and Homann Heirs.
Cartographically this map is derived from the work of the French cartographer and navigator Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas-Denis d'Après de Mannevillette (1707 – 1780). Mannevillette spent several years in the far east producing numerous surveys and updating older maps. His maritime atlas, the Neptune Oriental offered a wealth of new cartographic and maritime information in relation to the far east. It was published in 1745 and influenced numerous subsequent maps, as in the present 1748 example by Tobias Mayer and Homann Heirs.
CartographerS
Homann Heirs (1730 - 1848) were a map publishing house based in Nuremberg, Germany, in the middle to late 18th century. After the great mapmaker Johann Baptist Homann's (1664 - 1724) death, 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...
Tobias Mayer (February 17, 1723 - February 20, 1762) was a German astronomer and cartographer famous for his studies of the Moon. He was born in Marbach, Germany and raised in Esslingen in poverty. Between 1744 and 1746, Mayer studied engraving in Augsburg under Andreas Silbereisen (1713 - 1751). Moving to Nuremberg, he began working for the Homann Heirs company in 1746. There, he showed outstanding prowess and introduced many improvements to cartography. For example, Mayer composed Mappa Critica, which illustrated the accuracy, or rather lack thereof, of the latitudes and longitudes of locations in Germany. The map showed three Germanies according to three different cartographers, de l'Isle, Homann, and himself. 'The latitudes of the cities was mostly consistent, whereas the longitudes of some places (such as Dresden or Prague) differed by as much as a degree, thus showing to what extent longitude was problematic even on land' (Wepster, Steven, Between Theory and Observations: Tobias Mayer's Explorations of Lunar Motion, 1751-1755, Berlin, 2009). Mayer went on to create some of the first charts of the Moon and his chart of the full moon was unsurpassed for half a century. His fame comes from his lunar tables, and thanks to his scientific reputation he was elected as the chair of economy and mathematics at the University of Göttingen in 1751. He became superintendent of the observatory in 1754, where he worked until his death in 1762. Mayer is occasionally erroneously referred to as 'the Elder' or 'Johann Tobias the Elder.' Learn More...
Condition
Good. Backed on archival tissue with some repairs and reinforcements and fold intersections. Recto exhibits some soiling visible in photos. Original annotations in blue and red pencil.
References
OCLC 920196328.