Homann, Johann Baptist. Recentissima Asiae Delineatio. Nuremburg, 1730. Sea Charts Church 420

Church 420

were included in addition to the traditional body of twenty-seven Ptolemaic maps derived from the 1482 Ulm edition (or possibly from the manuscript atlas of Nicolaus Germanus that served as source for the latter)

accounts for much of his fame

Given the sweetness of its fruit

Homann, Johann Baptist. Recentissima Asiae Delineatio. Nuremburg, 1730. Sea Charts Church 420Johann Baptist Homann Recentissima Asiae Delineatio Nuremburg, c. 1730 20 5 8" x 23 5 8" sheet An example of Homann's first map of Asia, extending from the Mediterranean to the Pacific and including parts of Nova Hollandia, Carpentaria, Nova Britannia and the Marianas, along with a nice incomplete version of the mythical Compagnie Land, north of Japan. Dampier's passage north of Carpentaria is noted, along with Arnham's Land and Vay van Diemen on the