Homann Heirs

LO 3788

The Balearic Islands
Minorca, Mahon, St. Philip's Castle

"Plan des Forts Phillippe ..."
"Profil von dem Fort St. Phillippe."

Map of the northern part of the port of Mahon at Minorca, with a detail map of the fortification of St. Philip's Castle, the protecting fort at the entrance of the port of Mahon, and with a profile through the fortifications of St. Philip's Castle.

Orig. coloured copper engraving by Homann Heirs, Nuremberg about 1760, 45 x 45 cm.

Very good impression and condition, broad margins, on strong paper.

€ 420,-

Some details of the map:

Johann Baptist Homann (1663-1724). Engraver, cartographer and publisher in Nuremberg. Worked first of all for other publishers as Jacob von Sandrart, David Funcke and Heinrich Scherer, and founded his own firm 1702.

Homann Heirs. Successors of J.B. Homann. The company traded under the name of 'Homännische Erben' (Homann Heirs) from 1730 and under the name of Ch. Fembo from 1813 on.

June 29, 1756, after the siege of St. Philip's Castle, the Port of Mahon and Minorca was captured from Britain by the French marshal Louis François Armand du Plessis, a duc de Richelieu (1696-1788). A smaller affair, but it represented the outbreak of the Seven Years' War in the European theatre.

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