1720 NORTHERN ITALY antique MAP by JOHANN HOMANN AUTHENTIC

Johann Baptista HomannGermany, ca. 1664–1724ITALYDanubii Fluminus (a fontibus prope Doneschingam usq Posonium urbem defignati) Pars Superior, in qua Suevia, Bavaria, Asutria, Stiria, Carinthia, Carniola, Tyrolis et Helvetia com magna parte Italiae exhibentur a Ioh. Bapt. Homanno S.C. M. Geographo Norimbergae.   (Northern Part of Italy. Switzerland, and parts of Germany : from Rome in the south, north as far as Bavaria and Bohemia, to Provence in the west, and modern day Albania in the east.)This highly detailed map was constructed to illustrate the western extant of the Danube River. Hand-colored etching on paper, undated (Nuremberg; c. 1720)Size 21 by 24 1/4 inchesGood condition, reinforced fold===========================================================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 Jesui