HOMANN, JOHANN BAPTIST, — Atlas methodicus explorandis juvenum profectibus in studio geographico ad methodum Hübnerianam. Methodischer Atlas. Das ist Art und Weise, wie die Jugend in Erlernung der Geographie füglich examiniret werdenkan / nach Hübnerischer Lehr-Art.

Nürnberg, Johann Baptist Homann, 1719. Folio. (15) text pages (intro & index). With additional engraved title & 18 double page hand-col. engr. maps, printed on one side. Hardcover. Contemp. half vellum and paste-paper boards with flower decoration. (Binding rather rubbed; fore-edge of title leaf a bit frayed; num. early inscriptions on text pages; small hole in margin of Africa map). VG. ¶ First edition of one of the earliest school atlases to use a system of letters on blind maps that refer to the index in front of the atlas. Incl. 4 celestial maps on one leaf, maps of both hemispheres (incl. part of Australia), Europe, Asia, Africa, the Americas (with California as an island), and 12 maps of European countries.