Original antique world map in two hemispheres with additional hemispheres showing the North and South poles and two diagrams showing the earth as they thought it might look from space. North America, Australia and new Zealand are incomplete. There is also an interesting feature in the sea between Korea and Japan, which is labelled as the "Mare Orientale Minus".
With original colouring.
Homann Heirs were a map publishing company based in Nuremburg, Germany from the middle to late 18th century. After the death of the great mapmaker Johann Homann in 1724, ownership of his company passed to his son Johann Christoph. Following his death shortly after, it passed to the two managers of the company and all maps published thereafter featured the name "Homann Heirs". This occurs from 1731 until the last map was published in 1848.
