1712 GERMANY antique MAP DUCATUS MEKLENBURGICI by JOHANN HOMANN

Johann Baptista HomannGermany, ca. 1664–1724Ducatus Meklenburgici Tabula Generalis continens Duc. Vandaliae et Meklenburg Comitatum Et Episcopatum Swerinensem Rostochiense et Stargardiense Dominium…Extending from Holstein and Lubeck in the west to Rugia and Pomerania in the east, and centered on Mecklenburg, Swerinensis, Vandalia, Rostochiense and Stargardiense.Hand-colored etching on paper, undated (Nuremberg; c. 1712)Size 20  by 23.5 inchesBacked on paper===========================================================Johann Baptist Homann (20 March 1664 – 1 July 1724) was a German geographer and cartographer, who also made maps of the Americas.Homann was born in Oberkammlach near Kammlach in the Electorate of Bavaria. Although educated at a Jesuit school, and preparing for an ecclesiastical career, he eventually converted to Protestantism and from 1687 worked as a civil law notary in Nuremberg. He soon turned to engraving and cartography; in 1702 he founded his own publishing house.Hom