COLLECTION NAME:
David Rumsey Historical Map Collection
Record
Author:
Kiepert, Heinrich, 1818-1899
Author:
Rand McNally and Company
Date:
1892
Short Title:
Text: List of names to the Atlas antiquus
Publisher:
Rand, McNally & Co.
Publisher:
D. Reimer
Publisher Location:
Chicago
Publisher Location:
Berlin
Publisher Location:
Chicago
Publisher Location:
Berlin
Type:
Text Page
Obj Height cm:
36
Obj Width cm:
23
Note:
List of names in 2 pages.
Full Title:
(Text Page to) List of names to the Atlas antiquus. Twelve maps relating to ancient history by H. Keipert. Berlin, Dietrich Reimer (Ernst Vohsen). (to accompany) Atlas antiquus ... Rand, McNally & Co., Chicago and New York.
List No:
11690.015
Series No:
15
Engraver or Printer:
Reimer, Dietrich
Engraver or Printer:
Vohsen, Ernst
Publication Author:
Kiepert, Heinrich, 1818-1899
Publication Author:
Rand McNally and Company
Pub Date:
1892
Pub Title:
Atlas antiquus : Twelve maps of the ancient world for schools and colleges. By Dr. Henry Kiepert. Rand, McNally & Co., Chicago and New York.
Pub Note:
English edition of Kiepert's Ancient atlas, with 12 folded maps. Published by Rand McNally, Chicago, with 2 pages of text on ancient history and 27 pages of "accompanied index in English, contains all the ancient geographical names contained in the maps with explanation of their character ..." Maps are in Latin, copyrighted 1892, by Dietrich Reimer (Ernst Vohsen) Berlin. Engraved outline and full color maps, showing political and administrative boundaries, major cities, towns, roads, rivers, canals and mountains. Relief shown by hachures. Prime meridians are Paris and Greenwich. Bound in olive paper covers with black lettering "Atlas Antiquus by Henry Kiepert. Rand McNally & Co., Chicago and New York." Geographer Heinrich Kiepert (1818-1899) is generally considered to be one of the most important scholarly cartographers of the second half of the 19th century.
Pub List No:
11690.000
Pub Type:
Classical Atlas
Pub Type:
School Atlas
Pub Maps:
12
Pub Height cm:
37
Pub Width cm:
25
Image No:
11690015.jp2
Authors:
Kiepert, Heinrich, 1818-1899; Rand McNally and Company
Link To Source
Text: List of names to the Atlas antiquus
