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Covers: Neuester Zeitungs-Atlas fur Alte und Neue Erdkunde
Meyer, Joseph, 1796-185...
Covers: Neuester Zeitun...
1852
11652.001
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[Meyer, Joseph, 1796-1856, Zipter, J., Sporer, F., Metzeroth, Carl, 1824-1875, Luther, E.]
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(Covers to) Neuester Zeitungs-Atlas fur Alte und Neue Erdkunde. Herausgegeben von J. Meyer ... Hildburghausen, Amsterdam und New York : Stahlstich, Druck & Verlag des Bibliographischen Instituts. In 31 lieferungen.
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11652.001
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New Meyer's Zeitungs-Atlas. In 31 deliveries, closely corresponds to Meyer's Zeittungs und Groschen Atlas. With a engraved title page, index, and 123 steel engraving outline hand colored maps dated between 1849-1852. Although all the maps in this atlas are not individually dated, the title page and maps were often updated while the imprint with the date was not, causing confusion to the exact date for some of the maps. Atlas includes 123 maps of old geography, maps of modern geography, and maps of physical geography. Bound in marbled paper covered boards. Map numbering skips around from country to country with no obvious logic, and does not correspond with the index listing all the maps. The maps are of the highest Meyer quality, with detail information, showing political and administrative boundaries, cities, towns, canals, forts, roads, railroads, rivers and mountains. Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians are Ferro, Paris or Greenwich. There are six detailed maps of groups of the United States, including an interesting "Californien, Texas und die Territorien New Mexico u. Utah" of 1852 that shows the gold region in California and has a Texas truncated by an enlarged New Mexico. Maps engraved by J. Zipter, F. Sporer, E. Luther, C. Metzeroth, Joh. David, H. Bornmuller, Gustav Metzeroth, C. Ehricht, Adolf Gottschalck, E. Biedermann, W. Feuerstein, R. v. Rothenberg, H. Schleifmann, Schouw, Joakim Frederik and Jean Adam. See our 4808.000 - the 1854 edition of this atlas, in a somewhat composite form.
Cover: Grosser Hand-Atlas.
Meyer, Joseph, 1796-185...
Cover: Grosser Hand-Atl...
1860
4807A
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Meyer, Joseph, 1796-1856
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(Covers to) Grosser Hand-Atlas uber alle Theile der Erde in 170 Karten. Herausgegeben von J. Meyer. Hildburghausen Verlag des Bibliographischen Instituts. (1860)
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4807A
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This is Meyer's grandest production, a real tour de force that has fifty maps of the Americas including thirty three maps that are derived from the Tanner/Mitchell Universal atlas maps of the various U.S. States and Territories, Canada, and South America and are dated from 1844 to 1854 (with most dated 1844 or 1845). Many of the maps in this atlas have Philadelphia as a place of publication (along with several other cities) indicating that there may have been an arrangement with Tanner and/or Mitchell to copy the maps. The U.S. maps dated 1844-46 all appear to derive from a late 1830s edition of Tanner's Universal atlas. Those dated from 1850-54 derive from the Mitchell and Thomas Cowperthwait issues of the Universal atlas from 1850-54. Espenhorst lists a separate atlas (3.3.3) published in 1860 with these U.S. maps only, titled "Grosse und vollstandiger Auswanderungs-Atlas fur Nordamerika." The Iowa, Wisconsin, and Texas maps are not copied from the Universal atlas, but all the others are almost exact copies and it is strange that no credit is given to Tanner or Mitchell. Notwithstanding that, the copies are beautifully done and in some cases (the California map adds an inset of San Francisco Bay not on the Mitchell version) superior to the American originals. Wheat misses the Tanner/Mitchell derivation in the two maps he cites. The other maps in the atlas are all superbly engraved and the city maps have exquisite views -- all combining to make this the finest German atlas of the mid 19th century. Full and outline hand coloring. Maps are bound in half leather marbled boards with "Meyer's Grosser Hand-Atlas aller Theile der Erde." stamped on the spine in gilt. Scarce.
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