COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Meyer, Joseph, 1796-1856
Author:
Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain)
Date:
1845
Short Title:
London.
Publisher:
Bibliographischen Instituts
Publisher Location:
Hildburghausen
Type:
Atlas Map
Type:
View
Obj Height cm:
42
Obj Width cm:
68
Scale 1:
21,120
Note:
Two engraved maps. Relief shown by hachures. Includes drawings of the facades of 23 buildings and structures: Grossen Verhaltniss der merkwurdigsten Gebaude. Contents: Plan v. London westl. Halfte -- Plan v. London oestl. Halfte. Copied from the 1836 map published by the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge, London. "Hand-Atlas No. 64" and "... No. 63." David Rumsey Collection copy mounted as 1 sheet.
Country:
England
City:
London (England)
Full Title:
London, 1845, nach den besten Materialien entworfen. (Verlag des Bibliographischen Instituts zu Hildburghausen, Amsterdam, Paris u. Philadelphia, 1860)
List No:
4807.025
Page No:
25-26
Series No:
28
Publication Author:
Meyer, Joseph, 1796-1856
Pub Date:
1860
Pub Title:
Grosser Hand-Atlas uber alle Theile der Erde in 170 Karten. Herausgegeben von J. Meyer. Hildburghausen Verlag des Bibliographischen Instituts. (1860)
Pub Reference:
Espenhorst, J. Andree, Stieler, Meyer & Co., 3.3.1; not in Phillips.
Pub Note:
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.
Pub List No:
4807.000
Pub Type:
World Atlas
Pub Maps:
168
Pub Height cm:
38
Pub Width cm:
50
Image No:
4807025
Authors:
Meyer, Joseph, 1796-1856 ; Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain)
Collection:
Rumsey Collection
Link To Source
London.
