COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Meyer, Joseph, 1796-1856
Date:
1854
Short Title:
Graecia Antiqua
Publisher:
Bibliographischen Instituts
Publisher Location:
Hildburghausen
Type:
Atlas Map
Obj Height cm:
22
Obj Width cm:
29
Scale 1:
2,500,000
Note:
Engraved outline hand color map of ancient Greece. Showing boundaries, cities and towns. Relief shown by hachuers.
Reference:
Espenhorst 3.1.2.1.; not in Phillips.
Country:
Greece
Subject:
Classical
Full Title:
Graecia Antiqua. Stahlstich, Druck und Verlag aus der geographischen Anstalt des Bibliographischen Instituts. (In upper margin) Meyer's Groschen Atlas. (to accompany: Meyer's Zeitungs und Groschen Atlas aller Lander und Staaten der Erde).
List No:
4808.126
Page No:
123
Series No:
126
Publication Author:
Meyer, Joseph, 1796-1856
Pub Date:
1854
Pub Title:
(Meyer's Zeitungs und Groschen Atlas aller Lander und Staaten der Erde).
Pub Reference:
Espenhorst 3.1.2.1.; not in Phillips.
Pub Note:
Although this lacks a title page and index, it is a collection of maps that closely corresponds to Meyer's Zeittungs und Groschen Atlas. The maps are dated from 1832 to 1854, with the largest number dated between 1849 and 1852. 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. The bound order of the maps is puzzling, seeming to skip around from country to country with no obvious logic - however, there is a manuscript index listing all the maps and the pages are also numbered in ms. Also there are 5 pages of manuscript index placed in the atlas listing the maps in detail. The maps are of the highest Meyer quality and, although small, packed with information. Outline color. Atlas is bound in half leather marbled paper covered boards with a paper label reading "Schwartz" in ms.
Pub List No:
4808.000
Pub Type:
World Atlas
Pub Maps:
136
Pub Height cm:
27
Pub Width cm:
33
Image No:
4808126.jp2
Authors:
Meyer, Joseph, 1796-1856
Link To Source
Graecia Antiqua
