Homann Heirs’ Plans & Prospect of Oran Austria Volumes 1 to 4

Volumes 1 to 4

Joannes Ulpius and Bonino Mombrizio

This map of Reading is from Hermannides' Magna Britannia

Blaeu’s map of Herefordshire

this chart covers the coast from Palimurus Shoal in Yemen to the Khorya Morya islands and Ras Sukra in Oman

Homann Heirs’ Plans & Prospect of Oran Austria Volumes 1 to 4Topographia Repraesentio Barbarici Portus et Urbis Munitae Oran Oran, an important trading port and now Algerias second city, was governed by the Spanish between 1509 and 1708; our map was engraved on the occasion of its recapture from the Ottomans. It was sold to the Turks in 1792. Condition & Materials Copper engraving, 49. 5 x 57 cms, original hand colour to both town plan and prospect, blank verso.