Composite atlas of 89 engraved and hand-colored maps published by Homann Heirs. Nuremberg, ca. 1728-1759.

A bound volume of maps from various atlases published by Homann Heirs, including Große Atlas über die ganze Welt and Major Atlas Scholasticus. Many of the maps are decorated with elaborate cartouches; all are hand-colored.
Volume includes: many maps of Germany, maps of Austria, Italy, Belgium, France, Spain, Scandinavia, Denmark, and more; a map of Asia (1744); two maps of America (1746, 1756); world map (1746); "Schematismus Geographiae Mathematicae" (1753); distance chart (1731); map of the Persian Empire; map of Africa; map of the Ottoman Empire; and a map of Palestine ("Palaestina in XII Tribus divisa cum Terris Adiacentibus", 1750).

The maps are numbered by hand on verso. A handwritten list of maps is bound at the end, listing 70 maps only (some of the listed maps are missing from the volume).

89 maps (double-spread sheets), bound together. Maps (when open): approx. 58.5X49.5 cm. volume: approx. 50 cm. Condition varies. Creases and stains. Closed and open tears to edges and folds (damaging some maps). Strips of paper to verso of some maps. Edges of some maps trimmed. Some maps loose or detached. Leather boards, worn. Abrasions and tears (including open tears; mostly to spine) to binding. Binding almost completely detached.