‎SCHATZ, JOAHNN JACOB.‎
‎Atlas homannianus illustratus, Das ist: Geographische, Physicalische, Moralische, Politische und Historische Erklärung. 3 vols. ‎

‎Eisenach, Griessbach, 1737. 8vo. Three volumes uniformly bound in three contemporary full vellum bindings with title in contemporary hand to spine. Wear and soiling to extremities. Stain to inner margin of title-page and frontispiece in vol. 1, otherwise internally nice and clean. (26), 435, (1) pp. + frontispiece (2), 490, (1) pp. (2), 442 pp.‎

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‎Rare second edition, published the year after the original, of Schatz’ comprehensive geographical work providing detailed explanations and interpretations of various maps produced by the famous cartographer Johann Baptist Homann and his publishing house. “Johann Jacob Schatz, a German philologist, geographer, educator, and librarian student in Strasbourg in 1706 (received his master's degree in 1709), in Jena in 1715, and in Halle (Saale) in 1716 from 1716 to 1720, tutor at the Pädagogium in Halle from 1720 to 1726, director of the Gymnasium in Trarbach in 1728, director of the Gymnasium in Eisenach and librarian until 1737 from 1737 to 1760, head of the Protestant Gymnasium and librarian in Strasbourg.” (See CERL Thesaurus).‎