Atlas Minor cum XXXVI Tabulis Homannianis Secundum Hubnerian am Methodum coloribus rite distinctus atque Geographico ordine dispolitus Prosat Noribergae in Officina Homanniana, cum Privil. S.C.M. : = Kleiner Atlas von Sechs und Dreyssig Auserlesenen Homanns-Charten : nach methodischer Ordnung Herrn Johann Hübners, Rectoris in Hamburg, illuminiert und eingerichtet zu finden in Nürnberg in der Homannischen Officin mit allergnädigsten Kayserl. Privileg
A 1715 atlas issued by the Homann publishing house in Nuremberg, compiled by Johann Baptist Homann and Caspar Luiken, and arranged in geographical order for German-speaking schoolroom and scholarly use. Its pages are hand-coloured copperplate maps in which each territory is tinted in a distinct wash of green, pink, ochre and yellow, with decorative cartouches holding titles and allegorical figures in the upper left corners. A designer could draw on the clear regional colour blocking, the ornate baroque title cartouches with putti and drapery, and the dense boundary linework of these early eighteenth-century maps.
