Homann, Johann Baptist. Recentissima Asiae Delineatio. Nuremburg, 1730. Sea Charts were included in addition to

were included in addition to the traditional body of twenty-seven Ptolemaic maps derived from the 1482 Ulm edition (or possibly from the manuscript atlas of Nicolaus Germanus that served as source for the latter)

were among the most comprehensive and lavishly illustrated works of the era

as does the vivid yellow of the tail coverts and the bright colors of the beak—leading to multiple misidentifications of species based on these changes

in Lemmon/Magill/Wiese: Chartering Louisiana

and not merely in successive editions of the Theatrum

Homann, Johann Baptist. Recentissima Asiae Delineatio. Nuremburg, 1730. Sea Charts were included in addition toJohann Baptist Homann Recentissima Asiae Delineatio Nuremburg, c. 1730 20 5 8" x 23 5 8" sheet An example of Homann's first map of Asia, extending from the Mediterranean to the Pacific and including parts of Nova Hollandia, Carpentaria, Nova Britannia and the Marianas, along with a nice incomplete version of the mythical Compagnie Land, north of Japan. Dampier's passage north of Carpentaria is noted, along with Arnham's Land and Vay van Diemen on the