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Land of Cockaigne, a fantasy map
"Accurata Utopiae Tabula. Das ist der Neu_entdeckten
Schalck_Welt, oder so offt benannten, und doch nie
erkannten Schlarraffenlandes Neu erfundene lächerliche
Land_tabelle ..."
Originally coloured copper engraving by Homann
Heirs ('Officina Homanniana'), Nuremberg 1725-40.
49 x 57,5 cm.
Very good impression and condition.
sold
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| A highly imaginative and humorous map of Cockaigne,
the land of plenty, with its regions like the land
of feasting (Lurconia Reg.), of drinking (Bibiona
Reg.), of the mammon and the stomach (Mammonia,
Stomachi Imperium) and with lakes and rivers like
the wine-river or the drunkard-lake. With a decorative,
baroque cartouche with allegories on plenty and
abundance. The map is based on the book "Erklärung
der Wunder-seltzamen Land-Charten Utopiae ..."
by the general Johann Andreas Schnebelin (died 1706),
written after the idea of the English Bishop Joseph
Hall about a satirical geography of a a fictional
utopia.
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