Atlas Minor XXXVI. Tabularum Homannianarum Coloribus methodice distinctarum : = Kleiner Atlas Von Sechs und Dreyssig Ausserlesenen Homanns-Karten, nach methodischer Ordnung illuminiert und eringerichtet
A pocket atlas of thirty-six hand-coloured maps issued in 1744 by the Homann firm in Nuremberg for scholars and armchair travellers, with bilingual Latin and German titles. The four pictures are regional maps in which political territories are tinted in flat yellow, green, pink and orange, bordered by fine hatched outlines, rivers and cartouches with putti and heraldic shields, offering a designer ready models for colour-coded territorial diagrams and decorative map cartouches.
