Hasius I.-M.:”Historiae Universalis …ad eius partem ac idea Plane nova …Summorum Imperiorum in..Tabularum Geographicarum.”.Nurenberg 1743 First and only edition. In 4to 21x19cm,contemporary leather over boards, rubbed very light marginal inoffensive water stain at the upper edges of some pages, internally clean and bright, complete :title printed in red and black [9]18p.,84p.,16 double page plates of tables with contemporary colors and the 28 double pages copper engraved maps each one 27x19cm and with fine full body contemporary coloring ,overall very good condition. Johann Mathias Hase (1684-1742) was a leading German astronomer and cartographer of the first half of 18th century. He is a pioneer of History of Geography. In 1739 has already published an important work on the Levant regarding the historical evolution of the Eastern Mediterranean from Solomon times to the Hellenistic and Roman time ,coupled with fine maps. Following this success, he tried to continue in a larger scale and prepare a geographical work on the Great Human Empires which they flourished in the Levant up to his contemporary times.It had been published just the year following his death by Homann Heirs.The work is a Geographical study of historical geography and it is among the very first ever published studies of this kind .All the 28 fine maps have been originally drawn by Hase and form a fine corpus of a geographical Atlas covering historically the Levant and a wider area from ancient times to the contemporary Ottoman times ,never republished .An impressive and very influential work .Very richly illustrated and Extremely rare.