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57 x 48 cms., in fine early outline colour. With good margins all round
This fine detailed map of the Straits of Gibraltar is often listed as being by Johann Baptiste Homann after one drawn by the engineer J. de Petit and published by J.F. Weidler. It is engraved by R.A. Schneider with a fine decorative title cartouche and three fine ships in the Atlantic Ocean. It shows the Spanish coastline and interior in some detail from Malaga in the east to and beyond Cadiz in the west. Although listed as a Homann map the name is not written in the usual way. Stylistically it is just like a Nicolas de Fer map with similar paper being used and even the large margins, something Homann's maps never had. It is to him therefore that I have rightly or wrongly attributed the map.
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