Original antique map of the Turkish Empire by Johann Baptist Homann, (1664 -1724). It shows the eastern Mediterranean with Greece and Turkey, the Arabian Peninsula, as well as the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea.
Decorated with an aesthetic and fine title cartouche. Johann Baptist Homann was born 1664 in Oberkammlach.
Homann founded his business in 1702 in Nuremberg, Germany. After a long period of Dutch domination in map publishing, the Homann publishing house became the most important map and atlas producer in Germany.
He became a member of the Academy of Science in Berlin just after he published his first atlas in 1707. After his death 1724 in Nuremberg, the company was continued by his son Johann Christoph. The publishing firm was bequeathed to his heirs after his death in 1730 and was traded under the name Homann Heirs until the next century.
