COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Kiepert, Heinrich, 1818-1899
Date:
1846
Short Title:
Text: (Continues) Vorbericht. H. Kiepert
Publisher:
Verlag der Nicolaischen Buchhandlung
Publisher Location:
Berlin
Type:
Text Page
Obj Height cm:
42
Obj Width cm:
50
Note:
First edition of Topographical-historical Atlas of Greece and the Greek Colonies, with 24 maps, 6 pages of text, including 2 pages of forward by Prof. Carl Ritter inserted in, and 4 pages of explanatory text by H. Kiepert. Half title page pasted on inside front cover. Title page includes table of contents. Bound in half-calf and corners with marbled board covers. Maps are engraved by Delius, H., hand colored, showing political and administrative boundaries, cities, towns, villages, rivers, lakes, canals and mountains. Relief shown by hachures and spot heights. Heinrich Kiepert (1818-1899) is known as one of the most important scholarly cartographers of the second half of the 19th century. Ritter and Kiepert produced the topographical-historical Atlas of Hellas and the Hellenic Colonies in 24 sheets (1840-1846) plus several additional compilations of maps of the classical world. In 1845 he became a cartographer of the Bertuchian Geographical Institute in Weimar, and in 1852 he moved to Berlin in the same capacity at Dietrich Reimer. Kiepert contributed to Carl Ritters' work on maps of the General Geography (1852-54), and designed maps for the Berlin Society for Geography.
Full Title:
(Text Page to) Topographisch-historischer Atlas von Hellas und den hellenischen Colonien : in 24 Blattern; unter Mitwirkung des Professors Carl Ritter bearbeitet von H. Kiepert. Berlin. In der Nicolaischen Buchhandlung. 1846.
List No:
11692.008
Page No:
(4)
Series No:
8
Engraver or Printer:
Ritter, Carl
Publication Author:
Kiepert, Heinrich, 1818-1899
Pub Date:
1846
Pub Title:
Topographisch-historischer Atlas von Hellas und den hellenischen Colonien : in 24 Blattern; unter Mitwirkung des Professors Carl Ritter bearbeitet von H. Kiepert. Berlin. In der Nicolaischen Buchhandlung. 1846.
Pub Note:
See note field above.
Pub List No:
11692.000
Pub Type:
National Atlas
Pub Maps:
24
Pub Height cm:
43
Pub Width cm:
51
Image No:
11692008.jp2
Authors:
Kiepert, Heinrich, 1818-1899
