COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Kiepert, Heinrich, 1818-1899
Date:
1880
Short Title:
Nᵒ. 36: Nord-America
Publisher:
Reimer, Dietrich
Publisher Location:
Berlin
Type:
Atlas Map
Obj Height cm:
44
Obj Width cm:
55
Scale 1:
20,000,000
Note:
Outline hand coloured map. Upper meridian is Ferro. Lower meridian is Paris and Greenwich. Map shows mountains, oceans, gulfs, rivers, and lakes. Colour coded by political and administrative boundaries. Includes legend and text indicating mountains in Mexico and the smaller states in the United States. Relief shown by hachures.
World Area:
North America
Full Title:
Nord-America (Translation [North America]); H. Keipert's neuer Hand-Atlas Nᵒ.36; Berlin bei Dietrich Reimer; Stich von J. Sulzer, Druck von F. Barth. (to accompany) Kiepert's Hand-Atlas
List No:
17001.044
Page No:
36
Series No:
44
Engraver or Printer:
Sulzer, J.
Engraver or Printer:
Barth, F.
Publication Author:
Kiepert, Heinrich, 1818-1899
Pub Date:
1891
Pub Title:
Neuer Hand Atlas über alle Theile der Erde, Entworfen und Bearbeitet vor Dr. Heinrich Kiepert; Zweite vollständig berichtige und vermehrte Auflage; Neue Ausgabe. (included) Inhalt. (translation: [New hand atlas of all parts of the world, designed and edited for Dr. Heinrich Kiepert. Second Completely Corrected and Enlarged Edition. New edition.])
Pub Note:
1891 revised edition of Kiepert's atlas of the world, with 45 folded maps corrected in various dates. Published by Dietrich Reimer in Berlin, with 2 pages of text. Full color maps, showing political and administrative boundaries, major cities, towns, roads, rivers, bridges, canals and mountains. Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians are Paris and Greenwich. Atlas is bound in half leather, dark green covers with gilt title "Kiepert's Hand-Atlas". Heinrich Kiepert (1818-1899) is known as one of the more important scholarly cartographers of the second half of the 19th century. His Hand Atlas has several additional compilations. In 1845 he became a cartographer of the Bertuchian Geographical Institute in Weimar, and in 1852 he moved to Berlin in the same capacity as Dietrich Reimer, and designed maps for the Berlin Society for Geography.
Pub List No:
17001.000
Pub Type:
World Atlas
Pub Maps:
45
Pub Height cm:
49
Pub Width cm:
32
Image No:
17001044.jp2
Authors:
Kiepert, Heinrich, 1818-1899
