Asien - Australien
Nr. 639:
Beschreibung:
“Karte vom Fünften Erdtheil oder Australien. Entworfen von Dr. Friedr. Gottl. Canzler, jetzt aber nach den neuesten Entdeckungen berichtiget von C. G. Reichard”. Australia with New Zeeland, South East Asia and the Pacific Islands. Engraved map in original outline colour published by Christoph Fembo, Nürnberg “1821”. (PM) 48 x 60 cm.
Georg Christoph Franz Fembo bought the publishing house of Homann Heirs of Nuremberg in 1813. He was not only a publisher and dealer in the maps he had acquired, he as well ordered improved or new maps from scientists and even drew new maps himself. His son Christoph Melchior was less ambitious than his father, and the publishing activities of the house ended finally in 1852. All of Fembo’s folio-sized maps are rare. Our map is an updated version of Fembo’s map of 1813, which in turn footed on the Homann Heirs maps of 1795 and 1806 (both Fembo editions not in Tooley’s “One Hundred Foreign Maps of Australia”). A curiosity of our map is that New Zealand and the Pacific Islands are comprised as Eastern Australia. - Strong impression of the full plate with wide margins at all sides. Minor staining and creasing in places. A split in lower centrefold backed. An interesting and rare item.
“Karte vom Fünften Erdtheil oder Australien. Entworfen von Dr. Friedr. Gottl. Canzler, jetzt aber nach den neuesten Entdeckungen berichtiget von C. G. Reichard”. Australia with New Zeeland, South East Asia and the Pacific Islands. Engraved map in original outline colour published by Christoph Fembo, Nürnberg “1821”. (PM) 48 x 60 cm.
Georg Christoph Franz Fembo bought the publishing house of Homann Heirs of Nuremberg in 1813. He was not only a publisher and dealer in the maps he had acquired, he as well ordered improved or new maps from scientists and even drew new maps himself. His son Christoph Melchior was less ambitious than his father, and the publishing activities of the house ended finally in 1852. All of Fembo’s folio-sized maps are rare. Our map is an updated version of Fembo’s map of 1813, which in turn footed on the Homann Heirs maps of 1795 and 1806 (both Fembo editions not in Tooley’s “One Hundred Foreign Maps of Australia”). A curiosity of our map is that New Zealand and the Pacific Islands are comprised as Eastern Australia. - Strong impression of the full plate with wide margins at all sides. Minor staining and creasing in places. A split in lower centrefold backed. An interesting and rare item.
€ 1.400