Homann’s Map of the Dauphiné Date of Publication_1907 which still traded on Mercator’s

which still traded on Mercator’s name

From its Commencement in 1769 to its Termination in 1870

folding into original brown cloth covers

stretching to the Confederation of the Rhine and the Duchy of Warsaw in the east and Madrid and Rome in the south

never employed more than 150 Europeans at once

Homann’s Map of the Dauphiné Date of Publication_1907 which still traded on Mercator’sA map of the French Alps, the Dauphin, incuding Grenoble. The borders are those defined by the Treaty of Utrecht (1713) and the cartouche (putti menacing an astonished personification of France and a battle fought in the shadow of the Alps) probably refers to the Nine Years War and the invasion of the region by the Duke of Savoy in 1692. The founder of the business, Johann Baptist Homann (1664 1724), was a self taught copper engraver who founded the