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Antique map of the Netherlands. A contemporary hand-coloured copper-engraved map. Map of Benelux, i.e. Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg, with large decorative cartouche with small globe, cherubs and 17 coats of arms of the provinces, and scale of miles. Ornate title cartouche to upper left corner, the title held aloft on a banner borne by cherubs. Beneath this illustrations of Neptune and Mercury, the latter pointing at a terrestrial globe turned to show the Dutch possessions in south east Asia. Size: 48 x 56 cm. J. B. Homann (1664-1724) Johann Baptist Homann was born in Nuremberg in Southern Germany where he spent his whole life. After a long period of Dutch supremacy in map making the family Homann from Nürnberg became the main map producer of Europe. The company of Homann was founded in 1702 and is aknowledged to be one of the most important German map publishing firms of the eighteenth century. Homann's company successfully competed with leading European mapmakers He published his first atlas in 1707. After that he became a member of the Berlin acadamy of science and in 1715 he was appointed as Imperial geographer. After Johann Baptist Homann's death company was continued by his son, Christoph (1703-30) and other heirs under the name Homann's Erben (Homann's Heirs).