The famous German firm of cartographic publishers was founded by Johann Baptist Homann in 1702 in Nuremberg. In 1707 he published the “Neuer Atlas” whose success continued for many years. Homann died in 1724 and was succeeded by his son Johann Christoph who died in 1730. Henceforth the firm was run by various family members under the title of Homann Heirs until the late 1770s. It was during this latter period of ownership that the family published this fine map of the Middle East in their composite atlases of the eighteenth century.