HOMANN Heirs. Imperii Turcici Europaei Terra in primis Graec - Lot 24

HOMANN Heirs. Imperii Turcici Europaei Terra in primis Graecia... Nuremberg, 1741. Beautiful copper-engraved map (54 x 60.5 cm), colored borders. Interesting map of the Turkish Empire encompassing parts of Europe, North Africa and the Holy Land. Centered on Turkey and Greece, it covers a wide area from Sardinia and Corsica in the west to the Black Sea basin, including Cyprus and part of the Holy Land (Syria, Lebanon and Palestine) in the east. It is bounded to the north by Sarmatia Europaea, today's Lithuania, and to the south by North Africa. It features numerous details indicating towns, villages, seas, islands, roads, mountains, lakes, deserts and more... The map is embellished by a decorative title cartouche featuring numerous medallions of Greek historical figures.