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Portus Pulchri in Isthmo Panamensi [with] Scenographia Portus Pulchri
by Homann Heirs:
- Used
- Condition
- See description
- Seller
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London, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Nuremberg, c. 1740. Two copper engravings on one sheet, each 24 x 29.5 cm, original hand colour, trivial spotting, blank verso. Plan and view of the successful British attack on the wealthy and strategic Spanish harbour of Portobello in Panama under Admiral Vernon (for whom the Washington family estate Mount Vernon was named). Portobello fell within a day in November 1739, one of the early actions of the War of Jenkins Ear. The Homann firms source was a printed plan based upon an eye-witness sketch by Lieutenant Phillip Durrell, which was brought to London by Captain James Rentone and published in May 1740. Johann Baptist Homann (1664-1724), was a self-taught copper engraver who founded the leading German cartographic publishing house of the eighteenth-century. He was appointed cartographer to the Holy Roman Emperor in 1715, and his maps were sold throughout Europe. After Homann's death the business was continued by his son, Johann Christoph, and then by the Homann Heirs (his friend Johann Michael Franz and his stepsister's husband, the engraver Johann Georg Ebersberger). Map
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- Bookseller
- Bryars and Bryars
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 9817
- Title
- Portus Pulchri in Isthmo Panamensi [with] Scenographia Portus Pulchri
- Author
- Homann Heirs:
- Book Condition
- Used
- Place of Publication
- Nuremberg
- Date Published
- c. 1740
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Bryars and Bryars
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- Verso
- The page bound on the left side of a book, opposite to the recto page.