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HOMANN, Johann Baptist (1663-1724). Globi Coelestis in Tabulas Planas Redacti, Pars I-VI from Hemisphaerium coeli . Nuremburg: 1730. 6 double-page engraved celestial charts, partly hand-coloured (each sheet size: 500 x 585mm), with titles and tables in green, pink and yellow wash, stars in yellow, on paper guards, inscribed '4-9' in red ink and 'VII-XII' in brown ink on versos (small areas of browning along folds to four maps, some edges reinforced). An attractive series of Doppelmayr's celestial charts issued by Homann. Johann Gabriel Doppelmayer (1677-1750), cartographer, astronomer and mathematician, held the post of Professor of Mathematics at the Aegidien Gymnasium, Nuremberg from 1704-1750. A prolific globe-maker, Doppelmayer produced celestial charts from 1704 onwards, in his determination to explain the Copernican-Huygens world system. Homann was one of the main publishers of astronomical maps in 18th-century Germany. He settled in Nuremberg in 1688 and established his publishing house. (6)