1st edition, 1859 printing of Kiepert's Ancient atlas, with 8 double page maps. Published by Williams & Norgate, London and Edinburgh. Also issued by Dietrich Reimer in Berlin. Cover and title page in English and Latin. Maps in Latin, outline hand colored, by political and administrative boundaries. Some maps dated 1858. Showing major cities, towns, roads, rivers, canals and mountains. Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians are Paris and Greenwich. Bound in light browns cloth with black lettering. Geographer Heinrich Kiepert (1818-1899) is generally recognized as one of the most important scholarly cartographers of the second half of the 19th century.
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1st edition, 1859 printing of Kiepert's Ancient atlas, with 8 double page maps. Published by Williams & Norgate, London and Edinburgh. Also issued by Dietrich Reimer in Berlin. Cover and title page in English and Latin. Maps in Latin, outline hand colored, by political and administrative boundaries. Some maps dated 1858. Showing major cities, towns, roads, rivers, canals and mountains. Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians are Paris and Greenwich. Bound in light browns cloth with black lettering. Geographer Heinrich Kiepert (1818-1899) is generally recognized as one of the most important scholarly cartographers of the second half of the 19th century.
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