COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Meyer, Joseph, 1796-1856
Date:
1852
Short Title:
Graecia Antiqua
Publisher:
Bibliographischen Instituts
Publisher Location:
Hildburghausen
Publisher Location:
Amsterdam
Type:
Atlas Map
Obj Height cm:
22
Obj Width cm:
27
Scale 1:
2,500,000
Note:
Engraved outline hand color map of ancient Greece. Shows boundaries, cities and towns. Relief shown by hachures.
Reference:
Espenhorst, J. Petermann’s planet, v. 1, p. 477
Country:
Greece
Subject:
Classical
Full Title:
Graecia Antiqua. Stich, Druck & Verlag des Bibliographischen Instituts zu Hildburghausen und New York. (In upper margin) Meyer's Zeitung Atlas. No. 77. (to accompany) Neuester Zeitungs-Atlas fur Alte und Neue Erdkunde. Herausgegeben von J. Meyer.
List No:
11652.007
Page No:
4
Series No:
7
Publication Author:
Meyer, Joseph, 1796-1856
Pub Date:
1852
Pub Title:
Neuester Zeitungs-Atlas fur Alte und Neue Erdkunde. Herausgegeben von J. Meyer ... Hildburghausen, Amsterdam und New York : Stahlstich, Druck & Verlag des Bibliographischen Instituts. In 31 lieferungen.
Pub Reference:
Espenhorst, J. Petermann’s planet, v. 1, p. 477
Pub Note:
New Meyer's Zeitungs-Atlas. In 31 deliveries, closely corresponds to Meyer's Zeittungs und Groschen Atlas. With a engraved title page, index, and 123 steel engraving outline hand colored maps dated between 1849-1852. Although all the maps in this atlas are not individually dated, the title page and maps were often updated while the imprint with the date was not, causing confusion to the exact date for some of the maps. Atlas includes 123 maps of old geography, maps of modern geography, and maps of physical geography. Bound in marbled paper covered boards. Map numbering skips around from country to country with no obvious logic, and does not correspond with the index listing all the maps. The maps are of the highest Meyer quality, with detail information, showing political and administrative boundaries, cities, towns, canals, forts, roads, railroads, rivers and mountains. Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians are Ferro, Paris or Greenwich. 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. Maps engraved by J. Zipter, F. Sporer, E. Luther, C. Metzeroth, Joh. David, H. Bornmuller, Gustav Metzeroth, C. Ehricht, Adolf Gottschalck, E. Biedermann, W. Feuerstein, R. v. Rothenberg, H. Schleifmann, Schouw, Joakim Frederik and Jean Adam. See our 4808.000 - the 1854 edition of this atlas, in a somewhat composite form.
Pub List No:
11652.000
Pub Type:
World Atlas
Pub Maps:
123
Pub Height cm:
26
Pub Width cm:
33
Image No:
11652007.jp2
Authors:
Meyer, Joseph, 1796-1856
Link To Source
Graecia Antiqua
