Lot 694

Johann Baptist Homann (1664-1724).Tabula Poliometrica Germaniae ac Praecipuorum Quorundam Locorum Europae. Neu vermehrter curioser Meilen-Zeiger der vornehmsten Staedte in Europa besonders. Nuremberg, after 1731. Engraved and hand-coloured, image and sheet size 46,5 x 54,5 cm. Decorative table of distances between major European cities. In the 18th century this type of distance tables where useful for calculating the cost for sending a letter. The price was actually calculated according to distance, rather than weight. Therefore post route maps have the distances mentioned between each post -mounted on linen-