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Plan of the city of Metz published, published by the Homann Heirs in Nuremberg.
With German-Latin inscription and legend in two fields.
Baroque map of the city of Metz, a center of the Lorraine region in north-eastern France.
Detailed large plan of the city with its fortifications, dated 1739 in the Latin inscription.
Homann Heirs was a German publishing firm that enjoyed a major place in the European map market throughout the eighteenth century. Founded in 1702 by Johann Baptist Homann, the business passed to his son, Christoph, upon Johann’s death in 1724. Christoph died in 1730, aged only 27, and the firm was inherited by subsequent Homann heirs. This altered the name of the company, which was known as Homann Erben, or Homann heirs. The firm continued in business until 1848.
